GREENWICH Council wants to plant 2012 trees across the borough and is asking for suggestions as to where they should put them.
The two thousand trees are being planted as part of the Council’s “Playground to Podium” Olympic legacy scheme.
Local sites that have been spruced up already, or chosen for future planting, include:
- Six mature trees on the path in Greenwich High Road at the junction of Merryweather Place
- Six specimen trees on the roundabout at the junction of Peartree Way
- Twenty-seven “heavy mature standard trees” in Busgby’s Way
- Small copse of about 350 native whip trees at The Point
Cllr John Fahy, the council’s Cabinet member for Culture and the Olympics, said: “2012 trees for the 2012 Games will be a lasting and meaningful legacy from the Olympics in Greenwich and I’m urging residents to get involved and say where they want trees to be planted.”
Suggestions can be emailed to the council.
This is an excellent idea. This will no doubt cost a lot of money, but this is probably one of the cheapest ways of making Greenwch a more pleasant place to live. My suggestion would be to allocate most of them to high streets and public squares across Greenwich instead of wasting them in places where nobody sees or values them.