Greening Up
From fights to rights: making it the default to re-green our streets and squares
A report on how to make it the default to re-green our streets and squares
The Greening Up report, was published on the 26th September 2023 and is authored by the Create Streets team with insight from greening and development experts. It has been described as 'inspiring' and 'essential reading'. You can read it in its entirety here.
Download the 'Greening Up' report
The report highlights the importance of 'Greening Up' our urban areas and provides practical and policy recommendations for making it easier to do so.
This project would not have been possible without the generous support of the Berkeley Group.
If you would like to learn more about the Greening Up report please email eleanor@createstreets.com
IN THE MEDIA
The Times - Give everyone a right to grow trees, says government tsar
The Guardian - Give Britons the right to plant to green up public spaces, Gove adviser says
The Today Programme - Listen from 2:42
HortWeek - Create Streets launches reporting claiming greening up cities is 'our duty'
Building Design - Set up urban greening task force, Create Streets urges government
Reaction - Greening Up: why street trees are the urban wonder drug
Country Life - Green light for urban planting
Local Gov - Greening Up: why, where and how
Green Infrastructure Partnership - A new urban green spaces taskforce for England?
Architects' Journal - To green up British cities we need a ‘right to plant’
Transport Xtra - New strategy needed to re-green towns and cities, says Create Streets report
Order a hard copy of Greening Up
Books are £22.00 including postage and packaging to the UK. Postage to other countries: please order and we will get in touch regarding the extra amount
THE LAUNCH
The launch event summarised the evidence on why it’s the right thing to do, highlighted brilliant community work being done to re-green our streets and suggested local and national policy changes that would make it much easier to ‘green up’ our streets and squares.
You can watch a recording of the event below.
Speakers:
- Rob Perrins, Chief Executive Officer, Berkeley Group
- Claire Holland, Leader Lambeth Council
- Jon Burke, Decarbonisation Lead, Gloucester City Council, former Cabinet Member, Hackney
- Carolyn Doyley, East Marsh United, Grimsby
- Russell Horsey, Chartered Urban Forester, former tree officer (Bristol, Kensington & Chelsea)
- Karen Liebreich, Chair, Abundance London
- Nicholas Boys Smith, Founding Director, Create Streets
- Eleanor Broad, Associate Director, Create Streets
- Tom Noble, Senior Urban Designer, Create Streets
