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Chorley Council

… delivered projects to promote sustainable energy and we have taken steps to drive up the levels of recycling we achieve as a Borough. In 2019 we committed to significantly increasing our tree cover and we embarked on a tree planting programme involving our communities which will deliver a tree for every resident of our Borough by 2025. This strategy brings all of this work together and sets out…

… environment and community. A great example of this collaborative approach to tackling climate change is the Borough’s tree planting programme. The Council committed to planting 116,875 trees in 2019 and the Local Community have embraced the opportunity to help grow saplings and participate in tree giveaways, a programme which is estimated to capture approximately 38,000 tonnes of CO² over the next…

…, the Canal and River Trust and United Utilities to deliver environmental projects which include; the creation of wildlife areas in many of our parks and open spaces, the establishment of mini meadows and wildlife corridors along our roads, the creation of a tree nursery and the planting of sapling trees, the creation of ponds for great crested newts and new wetland areas, achieving green flag…

… Team) Dec 2024 Deliver the Emergency Tree Action Plan including the target to plant 116, 875 trees by 2025 Spatial Planning (Open Space Strategy Team) Dec 2024 Deliver a comprehensive system to record the baseline of canopy tree cover and spatial distribution of the ongoing planting Spatial Planning (Open Space Strategy Team & Climate Change) Dec 2022 Identify opportunities to work…

… with partners to enhance our rivers, improve biodiversity and prevent flood risk Spatial Planning (Open Space Strategy Team) July 2021 Hold tree giveaways twice a year for residents to plant their own trees upto 2025 Spatial Planning (Open Space Strategy Team) Annually to March 2025 P ro m o te lo w c ar b o n in ce nt iv es a nd en ab le a cc es s to g o ve rn m en t…