Location: East Renfrewshire
Tree Canopy Cover: 16.4%
Target Canopy Cover across GCR: 20%
Barrhead sits on the edge of Gleniffer Braes in East Renfrewshire and although close to quality greenspace the area lacks good green infrastructure and the benefits it would bring to people and wildlife.
It is the ambition of the CCF project is to increase the urban across the whole of Glasgow City Region to 20%. To date, a total of 58 standards (large trees) and 12,164 whips (small trees) have been planted across East Renfrewshire.
In 2021/2022 EADHA partnership planted 2,822 whips with the Clyde Climate Forest. East Renfrewshire Council then planted 24 standard trees as part of the CCF in 2023 across the Dunterlie area of Barrhead to increase the urban tree canopy cover along Stewart St, the green space at Waulkmill Ave and along the footpath in Dunterlie Park. An additional 550 small trees were planted in Dunterlie Park to increase the existing areas of urban woodland by Carlibar Primary School, the boys brigade, the local church congregation and Thompson Printers.
A further 1430 whips were planted at Carlibar Park, delivered by a partnership of Trees for Cities and EADHA bringing the total number of whips planted to 4,802. A further 10 standards have been planted by the council lately bringing the total number of standards to 34.
This area of Barrhead was selected because of the low canopy cover at an estimated 16.4%. The combination of low canopy cover and data on deprivation from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation indicates that these areas would be most at risk from climate events that can be mitigated by increased canopy cover.
Our ‘1000 trees’ campaign will focus on delivering neighbourhood level trees where they are most needed. In Barrhead we completely smashed our 1000 trees target planting more than 12,000 trees! These trees will help improve health and well-being, improving air quality and allowing people to engage with nature.
We are keen to develop business support for our local projects. Businesses who have helped this project through donations and / or tree planting will be shown here. If you'd like to sponsor this project contact business@clydeclimateforest.co.uk
If you live in the area shown, please let us know where you’d like to see trees planted.
If you are a local business, perhaps you’d like to sponsor some trees.
If you own or manage land in the area shown, you could pledge land for tree planting.
We are developing this project with East Renfrewshire Council, Trees for Cities, TCV, and Green Action Trust. The project is supported by the Woodland Trust’s Emergency Tree Fund and Scottish Forestry.
We are keen to develop business support for our local projects. The following business have helped this project through donation and / or tree planting.
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