Bristol Tree Forum
@bristoltreeforum.bsky.social
We are a voluntary organisation dedicated to promoting the planting and preservation of trees in and around Bristol's wonderful urban forest.
Paul Wood's excellent book - Tree Hunting - 1,00 Trees to Find in Britain and Ireland's Towns and Cities has just landed - thestreettree.com/.../tree-hun...
WeI particularly appreciated this section in the Bristol Section about the tree at the sadly-now-closed Bristol Zoo Gardens site.
WeI particularly appreciated this section in the Bristol Section about the tree at the sadly-now-closed Bristol Zoo Gardens site.
May 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Paul Wood's excellent book - Tree Hunting - 1,00 Trees to Find in Britain and Ireland's Towns and Cities has just landed - thestreettree.com/.../tree-hun...
WeI particularly appreciated this section in the Bristol Section about the tree at the sadly-now-closed Bristol Zoo Gardens site.
WeI particularly appreciated this section in the Bristol Section about the tree at the sadly-now-closed Bristol Zoo Gardens site.
Our request for trees on Yew Tree Farm to be protected with a TPO has been successful - as per this Pinpoint image - maps.bristol.gov.uk/pinpoint/ - (using an old 2016 aerial image).
Here are the trees we have mapped - bristoltrees.space/Tree/sitecod...
Here are the trees we have mapped - bristoltrees.space/Tree/sitecod...
May 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Our request for trees on Yew Tree Farm to be protected with a TPO has been successful - as per this Pinpoint image - maps.bristol.gov.uk/pinpoint/ - (using an old 2016 aerial image).
Here are the trees we have mapped - bristoltrees.space/Tree/sitecod...
Here are the trees we have mapped - bristoltrees.space/Tree/sitecod...
Green Party calls on Labour to rule out building on Brislington Meadows: bristolgreenparty.org.uk/green-party-...
Thanks for your support.
However, Brislington Meadows has been an SNCI for years and has never lost its status.
We pointed this out ad nauseam before and during the appeal.
Thanks for your support.
However, Brislington Meadows has been an SNCI for years and has never lost its status.
We pointed this out ad nauseam before and during the appeal.
May 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Green Party calls on Labour to rule out building on Brislington Meadows: bristolgreenparty.org.uk/green-party-...
Thanks for your support.
However, Brislington Meadows has been an SNCI for years and has never lost its status.
We pointed this out ad nauseam before and during the appeal.
Thanks for your support.
However, Brislington Meadows has been an SNCI for years and has never lost its status.
We pointed this out ad nauseam before and during the appeal.
Why? I’m completely stumped!
February 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Why? I’m completely stumped!
And so they are gone...never to return.
Everyday nature, so easily overlooked, then swept away.
Everyday nature, so easily overlooked, then swept away.
January 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
And so they are gone...never to return.
Everyday nature, so easily overlooked, then swept away.
Everyday nature, so easily overlooked, then swept away.
The government has issued a Planning Reform Working Paper inviting views on proposed provisions in the forthcoming Planning and Infrastructure Bill relating to environmental protection and improvement - assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/675db3...
The proposals are summarised in paragraph 13:
The proposals are summarised in paragraph 13:
January 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The government has issued a Planning Reform Working Paper inviting views on proposed provisions in the forthcoming Planning and Infrastructure Bill relating to environmental protection and improvement - assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/675db3...
The proposals are summarised in paragraph 13:
The proposals are summarised in paragraph 13:
'All felled, felled, are all felled...
O if we but knew what we do
When we delve or hew
Hack and rack the growing green! ...
Where we, even where we mean
To mend her we end her,
When we hew or delve;
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.'
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Binsey Poplars - felled 1879
O if we but knew what we do
When we delve or hew
Hack and rack the growing green! ...
Where we, even where we mean
To mend her we end her,
When we hew or delve;
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.'
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Binsey Poplars - felled 1879
December 16, 2024 at 10:52 AM
'All felled, felled, are all felled...
O if we but knew what we do
When we delve or hew
Hack and rack the growing green! ...
Where we, even where we mean
To mend her we end her,
When we hew or delve;
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.'
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Binsey Poplars - felled 1879
O if we but knew what we do
When we delve or hew
Hack and rack the growing green! ...
Where we, even where we mean
To mend her we end her,
When we hew or delve;
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.'
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Binsey Poplars - felled 1879
Two much-loved veteran Ash trees finally succumbed
December 7, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Two much-loved veteran Ash trees finally succumbed
Jumped before it was pushed... left with a bit of dignity
December 7, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Jumped before it was pushed... left with a bit of dignity
Someone there is who does not like a tree - in this case a 65 year old Weeping willow growing on the Metford Road Allotments.
They have ring-barked it then tried to disguise their work by nailing the bark back on with copper nails. The police have been told.
bristoltrees.space/Tree/tree/BC...
They have ring-barked it then tried to disguise their work by nailing the bark back on with copper nails. The police have been told.
bristoltrees.space/Tree/tree/BC...
December 6, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Someone there is who does not like a tree - in this case a 65 year old Weeping willow growing on the Metford Road Allotments.
They have ring-barked it then tried to disguise their work by nailing the bark back on with copper nails. The police have been told.
bristoltrees.space/Tree/tree/BC...
They have ring-barked it then tried to disguise their work by nailing the bark back on with copper nails. The police have been told.
bristoltrees.space/Tree/tree/BC...
Here is the approved demolition plan.
13 trees for the chop. 😥
13 trees for the chop. 😥
November 30, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Here is the approved demolition plan.
13 trees for the chop. 😥
13 trees for the chop. 😥
Heads-up.
13 trees, mostly London Plane, growing along Wine and High Streets and within the ruins of the ancient monument, St Mary-le-Port by Castle Park will soon be gone.
Now you see them, now you don't (in phase 2) - Blink and they're gone.
pa.bristol.gov.uk/online-appli...
13 trees, mostly London Plane, growing along Wine and High Streets and within the ruins of the ancient monument, St Mary-le-Port by Castle Park will soon be gone.
Now you see them, now you don't (in phase 2) - Blink and they're gone.
pa.bristol.gov.uk/online-appli...
November 29, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Heads-up.
13 trees, mostly London Plane, growing along Wine and High Streets and within the ruins of the ancient monument, St Mary-le-Port by Castle Park will soon be gone.
Now you see them, now you don't (in phase 2) - Blink and they're gone.
pa.bristol.gov.uk/online-appli...
13 trees, mostly London Plane, growing along Wine and High Streets and within the ruins of the ancient monument, St Mary-le-Port by Castle Park will soon be gone.
Now you see them, now you don't (in phase 2) - Blink and they're gone.
pa.bristol.gov.uk/online-appli...
Is this one of the biggest wild cherrys in Bristol - St John's Churchyard?
November 28, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Is this one of the biggest wild cherrys in Bristol - St John's Churchyard?
To add insult to injury, @BristolCouncil will not even apply their own planning policy and replace them according to the Bristol Tree Replacement Standard (BTRS), which would result in more than the one-to-one replacement proposed.
And consultation after the event? A mockery.
And consultation after the event? A mockery.
November 28, 2024 at 6:43 AM
To add insult to injury, @BristolCouncil will not even apply their own planning policy and replace them according to the Bristol Tree Replacement Standard (BTRS), which would result in more than the one-to-one replacement proposed.
And consultation after the event? A mockery.
And consultation after the event? A mockery.
Some old Oaks.
November 22, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Some old Oaks.
Here is what is proposed.
November 17, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Here is what is proposed.
The High Court has confirmed that the tree preservation regime and planning regime must work hand in hand and that developers relying on the planning permission exception to the tree preservation regime do not have free rein.
Here is the Judgment:
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/2...
Here is the Judgment:
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/2...
November 17, 2024 at 8:51 PM
The High Court has confirmed that the tree preservation regime and planning regime must work hand in hand and that developers relying on the planning permission exception to the tree preservation regime do not have free rein.
Here is the Judgment:
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/2...
Here is the Judgment:
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/2...
We were told that Bedminster Green would not be sold.
It was a lie!
It was a lie!
November 17, 2024 at 8:51 PM
We were told that Bedminster Green would not be sold.
It was a lie!
It was a lie!
Trees are so wonderful that we copied them.
November 17, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Trees are so wonderful that we copied them.
Such a shame that no new trees are planned for this new space.
As ever, only brutalist street furniture and the now ubiquitous mobile mast.
As ever, only brutalist street furniture and the now ubiquitous mobile mast.
November 17, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Such a shame that no new trees are planned for this new space.
As ever, only brutalist street furniture and the now ubiquitous mobile mast.
As ever, only brutalist street furniture and the now ubiquitous mobile mast.