Urban Trees and Planning 101

Event Information

Join Mark Ashdown, Bristol Tree Forum, Chartered Arboriculturalist Russell Horsey and Woodland Trust External Affairs Officer, Bridget Fox, for a discussion on the protection of trees in development cases.  In this webinar you will learn about what protections and opportunities exist for protecting the trees in your communities.

The session will be chaired by Tony Burton, Chair, CPRE London.  

Contributors

Russel Horsey is a Chartered Arboriculturalist who has spent the last 22 years managing urban trees, planting trees and woodlands and working with community groups across the UK and improve urban forestry in our towns and cities.  Russell has previously worked for Epping Forest District, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Salisbury District and Hart District councils providing advice on trees and development, tree preservation orders and trees in conservation areas. 

A graduate of Toronto’s Masters In Forestry Conservation program, he got passionate about the need for the sector to engage more with the public following a volunteering experience at Friends of the Urban Forest in San Francisco where he volunteered for four months as a community planting manger whilst exploring the West Cost of the USA.  Since then he has looked to build community engagement into all of the council programs he has worked on and other projects since setting up as a consultant.  

He is a regular speaker at international tree conferences for his community and tree planting work, and for his work at Bristol City Council where he built an innovative team who were awarded the Barchams Award for Outstanding Urban Forestry Management.  He now works across the UK providing design and tree planting advice, as well as to councils at a strategic level on how they can address climate change via more tree planting and community engagement. He also acts as independent advisor for the Woodland Trust urban team as well as sitting on advisory boards in for Welsh Government including their Woodland Strategy and Advisory Panel, Plant!, Plant Health and is providing advice to Welsh Government on the current review of the UK Forestry Standard review.  

Follow him on Twitter at  https://twitter.com/RussellHorsey

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Organisation

Woodland Trust

CPRE London

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