{"id":38653,"date":"2023-12-29T17:37:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T17:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38653"},"modified":"2023-12-29T17:37:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T17:37:22","slug":"ihbc-practice-policy-signpost-rishi-sunaks-tree-consultation-pledge-will-it-save-our-urban-canopy-or-fall-short-of-real-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38653","title":{"rendered":"IHBC \u2018Practice &#038; Policy\u2019 Signpost: Rishi Sunak&#8217;s tree consultation pledge &#8211; Will it save our urban canopy or fall short of real change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16777\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/UK_Gov_public_parks.png\" alt=\"UK Gov public parks\" width=\"250\" height=\"163\" \/>Leading Britain\u2019s Conversations (LBC)<\/em> has featured an \u2018opinion piece\u2019 on the announcement by Rishi Sunak that the government will be introducing a Duty to Consult on the felling of street trees in England.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Leading Britain\u2019s Conversations<\/em> <em>(LBC)<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>The public mood cannot be misunderstood \u2013 we like trees, and we don\u2019t like them being chopped down.<\/p>\n<p>This duty was already enshrined in the Environment Act 2021 and should have been brought in months ago\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>In Plymouth, after a long campaign by our group, STRAW (Save the Trees of Armada Way), to inform residents of what our council had planned for our urban forest, we were eventually offered a public consultation on the scheme\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Trees are big news at the moment, following the Sheffield scandal, the felling by Plymouth City Council, and other campaigns up and down the country\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Retaining trees should be the starting point. Felling must be a last resort.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/opinion\/views\/rishi-sunaks-tree-consultation-pledge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading Britain\u2019s Conversations (LBC) has featured an \u2018opinion piece\u2019 on the announcement by Rishi Sunak that the government will be introducing a Duty to Consult on the felling of street trees in England. image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38654,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38653\/revisions\/38654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}