Planting Event - A chance for local residents to do their bit for The Big Tree Plant

You are invited to our forthcoming planting event in Seaforth.All welcome.Come along on 31st March 2012 to plant small trees to create copses across The Doggy green space.Wildflowers will also be planed by local school children to create a pleasant walking environment for all residents of Sefton and the local area.

80 New street and green space trees planted in Seaforth

The Mersey Forest has been working with Sefton Council's Parks and Green Spaces team to consult local residents around south Seaforth on improvements to local green spaces and the planting of residential streets with ornamental flowering trees. Residents were asked if they wanted a tree, if so would they water it.They were also given the opportunity to choose the type of tree and its location near their property.

Many residents said yes! The Green Spaces officers then arranged for a contract to be drawn up to plant the trees with protective green plasticoated guards.

Now 80 more trees have been planted on Verdi St, Caradoc St, Seaforth Rd and Church Rd around the 'Doggy' Green space.

Local Schools and Community Green Seaforth Rd

Young 'green team' helpers from local primary schools Our Lady Star of The Sea and Rimrose Hope helped local community group members plant annual flowering plants around newly planted trees on Seaforth Rd, Sefton.

Ben Greenaway Green Streets Coordinator for The Mersey Forest said "it is always a pleasure to see the enthusiasm of young people for making a difference to their local environment.This event shows the pride that local people have in their street environment".

The event was funded by Crosby Housing Association managing the Living Through Change funding as part of the Housing Market Renewal Fund.

Trees were planted through the Sefton Trees and Woodlands Department from a Section 106 allocation.Green Streets, that works with communities to plant street trees across Merseyside is supported by The Forestry Commission, through the Setting The Scene for Growth programme which is funded by the Northwest Regional Development Agency:

For more photos of the planting

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Tree Lined Streets For Seaforth !

30 new street trees were planted along the shopping and residential areas on Seaforth Rd between the railway station and the Caradoc Public House.

At the request of local residents groups and residents and businesses who chose what trees were planted and where, The Mersey Forest helped Sefton Council's Trees and Woodlands Team achieve part of what has become a rejuvination of the street environment across many parts of the borough.

Moving towards making Seaforth once again what one old lady remembers how it used to be?

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Take part in our new pole coming up soon!

First pits dug in Seaforth

Today, contrators dug their first tree pit in what promises to be a succesful tree planting along Seaforth Rd.

Tree locations Marked Up

30 new tree locations have been marked up on the pavements by Sefton Council's Trees and Woodlands Team staff.

Tom Sullivan from the Seaforth Residents Action Group helped the Green Streets Team drop information leaflets through the letter boxes of residents and businesses along Seaforth Rd giving residents an opportunity to make any comments on the final locations of tree pits.

Tom Sullivan said 'after all the hard work the community is looking forward to seeing the trees in the ground at last!'

Local residents and schools will be holding a series of events to mark the planting of the trees this spring - watch this space!

Consultatation Event for Green Streets Seaforth

Residents and businesses in Seaforth have taken part in two consultation events held within the community on Seaforth Rd.Over 400 local residents were leafleted and invited to express their views on the tree planting and to ask questions about how it was being implemented.Visitors filled in tree request forms that had been previouisly posted to houses with freepost return envelopes.
Residents and businesses can choose a tree and opt to water it in the hotter summer months or when the tree needs water from the beginning of April.
Visitors were also asked about their local greenspaces on Seaforth Rd and the old Docktrack or 'Doggy' off Church Rd and Church Grove; what they used them for,what they wanted from them and what challenges were faced in getting people to use them more.
Green Streets intends to apply for further funding to improve local green space.

If you are interested in any of these issues or want to get invloved in an upcoming planting event please ring 01925 816 217 or e mail the project coordinator Ben on ben@merseyforest.org.uk

Latest News! Seaforth Residents listen up? get involved!

The Liverpool Biennial http://www.biennial.com/
launched their Canal Project on the Leeds Liverpool canal earlier this year and concluded the project in September with a Canal boat parade to Bank Hall and a conference on Urbanism , How to make a Happy City.They set up a space in the Stella Precinct to talk to local residents.

Now Seaforth residents can use the old post office,blue shuttered here:
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THE IDEAS SHOP is the (old) Seaforth Post Office, 18 Stella Precinct, Seaforth Rd, Liverpool, Merseyside L21 3TB ......250m south of Litherland Station......see below...

to talk to members of the Seaforth Residents Action Group to discuss ideas for improving Seaforth, planting street trees,get photocopying or just have a chat.
Open Monday mornings from 10.

Seaforth's streets without trees

An abandoned shop New houses

streets without trees A site for some trees