500000 trees to be. Planted throughout England

What a great idea. My DS was involved in a tree planting initiative on his primary school field forty years ago.
He takes great pride in pointing to these now beautiful mature trees, screening the field from the road, providing shade and birdsong for the children at play, and, of course, helping to mitigate climate change
He went on to.have a career in developing sustainability in building.

plant not plan
or did i mean plan

Hopefully these trees will offset the hundreds if not thousands of acres of farmland/green fields which are covered in solar farms.

I am fortunate that we still have green spaces and trees. Mind you our local council planted over a 100 saplings on the edge of a local park, they hadn’t done their due diligence as it’s a flood plain. Every single one died 🤦‍♀️

Well I hope they dont plan them around here.
We are awash with them.
And they are sooo tall nowadays.

Anybody else remember the “Plant a Tree in 73” scheme? The following year it was “Plant some more in 74”. I had stickers. I feel old now.

This government notice gives more detail

Local communities to receive £79 million to restore nature - GOV.UK share.google/p1vfizMZzbzsEdFK9

An excellent idea but I wonder where they will be planted. We are losing a huge amount of greenbelt to housing and if we want to keep producing food we can't afford to lose more farmland.