Ten hectares of trees will be planted in Hartlepool over the next two years in a bid to improve the town’s low tree coverage and improve people’s “quality of life”.
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00:00We are launching the Trees for Cities initiative across Harlepool where we are
00:04starting to plant many more trees across Harlepool for the benefit of the
00:08community. It's all part of a £475,000 initiative in partnership with Trees for
00:14Cities, Harlepool Borough Council and other partners. We've secured £250,000
00:18from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to kickstart this project and we have
00:23been working with people of Harlepool, the local community to increase the tree
00:28canopy across Harlepool by about 10 hectares over the next few years.
00:33Trees for Cities is the UK's only charity which focuses just on getting trees into
00:37urban areas and we've been working with the council for about the last 12 months
00:40to pull this project together and we're delighted to be starting a two-year
00:44initiative which will see trees planted, new jobs created and multiple other
00:49partners coming together to make sure that it's a success.