Where are all these trees going to be planted.

[Greythundercloudys]

What is the government going to pay per acre for planting trees as the amount of area for this project and shear amount is massive, l don't think anything like the amount will ever be planted. Pie in the sky.

 

[Sid]

Aviation industry wants them planted to offset their emissions.
Around the runway there is plenty of room!

 

[Dry Rot]

Probably starting with grouse moors. Then any land that won't grow vegetables.

 

[Bogweevil]

Towns and cities are the very best places for trees but there is only enough space for 6% of the planned numbers.

 

[teslacoils]

Every new home should have one perhaps?

 

[milkloss]

Every new home should have one perhaps?

nice idea but I think in a decade or two that would be a nightmare!

 

[Northeastfarmer]

The government don’t seem to give a fudge about trees when they grub millions out to put an extra lane on the motorway or build another 2 billion houses

 

[Jackov Altraids]

Planting more trees is like buying more saucepans to catch the drips when your roof is leaking.

 

[Lincsman]

No problem, you plant the same field every year after a quick discing in november, where does it say they have to grow for a 100 years?

 

[Chae1]

Every new home should have one perhaps?

Could be a condition of planning.

 

[Hindsight]

Every new home should have one perhaps?

Then a subsidence problem in 30 years! But you are correct in that every house built will have a tree (or two!) but offset on land elsewhere that is purchased/leased in conjunction with the housing development. Thus the cost will be returned to the original consumer. Interesting is going to see how government implements this - coercion or encouragement.

 

[GeorgeK]

Could be a condition of planning.

People won't have it, dropping leaves in the gutters, shading out the neighbours, liability when bits fall off and roots in the drains. Everyone's in favour just not in their backyard

 

[Dman2]

Our house is surrounded by trees
Look lovely but absolute nightmare, leaves everywhere
Not as many now as there used to be, think coal fired rayburn finished one or two off

 

[Dry Rot]

Could be a condition of planning.

If you make that point to the LA when you see a new planning application, it might be. Words and promises cost nothing. Getting the LA to make the developer conform to that requirement is another matter as planning actually don't give a toss. Otherwise my neighbour's rubbish dump -- sorry, I forgot, officially it's a 3 acre farm for his four sheep -- would be a leafy glade.

 

[SilliamWhale]

I know where I'm going to put them if under duress but having seen the Welsh environmental scheme finish with no replacement after some pretty dedicated work on my own part I'm very reluctant to hop in with any future scheme. I do wonder if we will see a 5% rule or something. I suppose on the positive side at least farms/ landowners are seen as part of the "solution" as it were

 

[Giles1]

Certainly in this area forestry concerns are able to outbid agricultural ones for land. There are other farms locally that have been sold for steading developments and their ground is not farmed, perhaps they could be looked at with a view to encouraging tree planting. Some estates are busy firing in plantations too. I think the seepage of farmland to trees is increasing anyway and taking out bits of hill (and some good grazing/cutting ground too )is going to perpetuate this drift as it becomes harder to manage bits of units scattered between plantations.

 

[farmerm]

I keep banging on about it.... but global deforestation fells an area equal to the UK's entire farmed area every 1.2 years!! We can not even offset carbon released from logging whilst the rate of tree planting is so massively behind the rate of deforestation. The notion that aviation can "offset" their carbon by planting a few acres of trees is an utter, and potentially dangerous, fallacy! We must either stop global deforestation and burning fossil fuels or hope the C02 science is wrong and carry on as we are. There is zero to gained by tinkering.

 

[teslacoils]

nice idea but I think in a decade or two that would be a nightmare!

Tbh that's the unofficial English Woodland Grant Scheme strapline for anyone who now finds they are stuck with stupid tiny parcels of woodland that would be better felled.

 

[SilliamWhale]

I keep banging on about it.... but global deforestation fells an area equal to the UK's entire farmed area every 1.2 years!! We can not even offset carbon released from logging whilst the rate of tree planting is so massively behind the rate of deforestation. The notion that aviation can "offset" their carbon by planting a few acres of trees is an utter, and potentially dangerous, fallacy! We must either stop global deforestation and burning fossil fuels or hope the C02 science is wrong and carry on as we are. There is zero to gained by tinkering.

This isn't the point. Its not about actually doing anything about carbon emissions, its about being seen to be doing something about carbon emissions! Jump on board

 

[Still Farming]

"Moniot idea ",for all mountain and upland farms snd rewilding allegedly?