Getting it right for trees on streets and highways

How can we ensure that street trees are regarded as assets, part of our critical infrastructure, rather than as liabilities? One of the key requirements is to ensure that planting is carried out in the correct way to support tree establishment and avoid some of the common concerns expressed by highways departments asked to adopt them. TDAG was invited to produce technical working drawings for street trees in a number of typical scenarios/common locations in both new streets and retrofitting in existing streets. The document, which is being developed by the Forestry Commission and TDAG, Civic Engineers and Urban Design Learning with DLUHC support, will be useful for the implementation of the National Planning Policy Framework Clause 136 (all new streets to be tree-lined), for local authorities for the development of the required Authority Wide Urban Design Codes and, in due course, to support the updated Manual for Streets 3.