Green Streets

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Green Streets is The Mersey Forest's programme of urban street tree planting that is improving our neighbourhoods and bringing communities together.

Thousands of street trees

Since 2007 we have worked with a wide range of partners to plant thousands of street trees to brighten neighbourhoods across Merseyside and North Cheshire, delivering the following benefits:

Funding and case studies

Green Streets is funded through the Forestry Commission's Setting the Scene for Growth project and by a range of Council and partner environmental programmes. Here's a taster of some of the communities we've worked with to enhance people's neighbourhoods and make our towns and cities even better places to live and work:

Ellesmere Port

Residents pose with their new street trees in Ellesmere Port

Street trees in central reservation of urban dual carriageway

Visit the Ellesmere Port Green Streets blog.

Knowsley

Local community pose with newly planted street tree

Visit the Northwood Green Streets blog.

Liverpool

school pupils and teacher help plant street trees in Everton

Pupils from West Everton's Faith Primary School teamed up with volunteers from The Friends of Everton Park to plant trees to improve their neighbourhood. The tree planting was coordinated by The Mersey Forest, and funded by Liverpool PCT as part of the city's Decade of Health and Wellbeing. Read our full Everton news story.

Sefton

The Mersey Forest's Green Streets Coordinator explains the benefits of the new street trees to a class of school children on a site visit

Visit the Seaforth Green Streets blog.

St.Helens

Residents post with street tree in Northwood, Knowsley

Visit the St.Helens Green Streets blog.

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