Wilton Street

Wilton Street has lost many of its trees over the years, but PTP has had an opportunity to replace some of them.

PTP, on behalf of Plymouth and South Devon Community Forest, have now replaced 5 trees on Wilton Street!

The Plymouth and South Devon Community Forest has now planted an enormous amount of new trees and woods across 34 different schemes in the city and even more beyond the city on Dartmoor, West Devon and South Hams.  They all attracted payments from DEFRA’s Trees for Climate fund. The schemes included arboretums, orchards, hedgerows, and bolstering existing woodland, mostly on amenity grassland at the request of local communities.

Attention has turned to some of the more complex projects, typically street tree replacements, which need detailed planning, close consultation with residents and stringent approval processes, as well as more demanding aftercare requirements. We are excited to announce that PTP has recently delivered two ‘case-study’ projects, one on Beacon Park Road where there are about 20 stumps and empty tree pits, and the other on Wilton Street which had a total of 15 missing trees. The projects are not only to replace missing street trees but also to capture and cost the stages involved so that similar projects can be delivered with confidence. It’s a major step towards conserving Plymouth’s tree-lined streets!  The projects were coordinated by James Brown, a chartered landscape architect who is used to managing community projects from his time at Groundwork.

In this case, the original plan was to plant 8 trees on the West end of Wilton St. Unfortunately, a cable which had not shown up on the services plan was discovered on the planting day which is why all 8 were not planted. The spare 3 trees were planted on Segrave Road in locations where previous new trees had failed.