Online: Trees and planning – tools for planners and design teams
- CPD Value: This event is awarded 2 CPD Hours
| Dates | Location | Cost (ex VAT) | |
| Wed 21 Oct 2026 | Online via Zoom | FREE | Book now |
Full Details
Date: 21st October 2026
Time: 2-4pm BST
Place: Zoom
Trees and planning – tools for planners and design teams
85% of UK citizens already live in urban environments. To be sustainable these must be healthy places for both people and nature. Research has demonstrated the critical role of trees for environmental, social and economic benefits
Planning has a critical role in ensuring that trees are both protected and new trees added to developments – whether new developments or regeneration of existing urban areas – to achieve maximum benefits for people, nature and place.
This seminar will explore the various tools that can help both planners and design teams to deliver the maximum benefits from trees and green infrastructure by examining some of the following issues:
- Why all local authorities need evidence based, adopted tree strategies/urban forest strategies or masterplans
- What tools are available to both design teams and planning authorities
- What is the 3-30-300 rule or principle and what does it mean in practice?
- How to deliver tree value
- The benefits of canopy cover and how to determine what is needed locally
Chair:
Claire Stafford, Planning and Policy Advisor, Royal Town Planning Institute
What makes a successful local tree strategy which delivers – the process for the Cambridge Urban Forest Strategy (2026-2036) – Matt Magrath, Urban Forestry Manager, Cambridge City Council
Tools for planners:
- 3-30-300 Principle in practice – John Rose, Urban Forest Consultant, Treeconomics
Tree Value Visions tool – new free-to-use tool for councils and communities – Alison Dyke, Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York and Peter Wood, Associate Lecturer, Social Science and Global Studies, The Open University in Scotland
Urban Tree Canopy Cover User Guide – progress report – Nicola Brown, Senior Officer Green Infrastructure, Natural England
Assessment of Green Infrastructure Equity (AGIE methodology) – Plymouth Case Study – Martha Crockatt, Research Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford (confirmed)