Tree-planting strategy 2024 - Find a freedom of information request

1. Within your council, please provide the documented tree-planting strategy for the whole of 2024?

2. Within your council, what was your tree-planting goal for the whole of 2024? (This may be the number of trees you aimed to plant, for instance.)

3. Within your council, what was the tree-planting budget for the whole of 2024?

4. How many trees were planted by the council or contractors of the council in the whole of 2024?

5. Within your authority area, what was the volume of land allocated for planting in 2024?

6. Within your authority area, from the beginning of 2023 to the end of 2024, how many planted trees have failed/died?

1. Please see attached Lincolnshire County Council’s Tree Planting Strategy 2024 – 2034.

Should you require the attachments mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and this can be provided.

2. As part of the partnership between Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) and the Woodland Trust, we aimed to plant 100,000 trees between October 2024 and March 2025.

3. Contribution towards partnership with The Woodland Trust £43,630.00 and other LCC-funded schemes £6,732.43 (Total £50,362.43). Coronation Living Heritage Fund budget for community orchard creation for 2024/2025 planting season £43,687.72. Total (including orchard planting): £94,050.15.

4. Between October 2024 and March 2025, we have facilitated the planting of 100,000 trees and hedgerow plants as part of the partnership between Lincolnshire County Council and The Woodland Trust. LCC-lone funded schemes total 18,198 tree and hedgerow plants planted this planting season. In addition, LCC has facilitated the creation and expansion of 32 community orchards through the Coronation Living Heritage Fund (823 fruit trees total planted between October 2024 - March 2025).

5. 0 hectares (ha) of LCC-owned land has been allocated for tree planting during 2024. We are reliant on tree planting grant applications from private landowners, farmers, Parish Councils, community groups and charities.

6. LCC expect up to a 10% loss.