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Bristol Tree Forum 🍃💚🍃

@BristolTreeFora

We are a voluntary organisation dedicated to promoting the planting and preservation of trees in and around Bristol's wonderful urban forest.

 Bristol, England
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Joined October 2016
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Brislington Meadows was always too steep (that's why it has never been developed) and should never have been allocated for development in the first place. bristol247.com/opinion/your-… @BrisMeadows
'Too steep to be fair - the Brislington Meadows plans still won't work'

'Too steep to be fair - the Brislington Meadows plans still won't work'

Plans do not take Disabled people, prams or cyclists into account says campaigner Lucy Bell-Reeves

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Now the airport’s own figures make our case: an update on Cook’s Farm and the planned expansion of Bristol Airport. Cook’s Farm – rich in ancient habitat and biodiversity but now threatened by the planned expansion of the airport. bristoltreeforum.org/2026/09…
Now the airport’s own figures make our case: an update on Cook’s Farm

Now the airport’s own figures make our case: an update on Cook’s Farm

Discover the fight against Bristol Airport's expansion and its impact on Cook’s Farm's ancient habitat and veteran trees. Read more now!

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Bristol has a plan for St Philip’s Marsh. It’s confirmed it can depart from it ... mcbngtree.substack.com/p/bri…
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Bristol’s new Local Plan starts now — and it mentions trees just once mcbngtree.substack.com/p/bri…
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Bristol is drafting its Local Plan. Again! The consultation starts tomorrow, so get ready to comment. mcbngtree.substack.com/p/bri…
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Apples and pears: compensating habitat loss at Temple Island The scheme to make up for the habitat loss by creating eight new habitats in Bristol’s parks has resulted in 4 different answers to this question: ‘How much biodiversity does this deliver?’ ... mcbngtree.substack.com/p/app…
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Bristol’s ‘lowland meadows’ promise doesn't add up mcbngtree.substack.com/p/bri…
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Bristol’s ‘lowland meadows’ promise doesn't add up mcbngtree.substack.com/p/bri…
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Here are our Preliminary representations - bristoltreeforum.org/wp-cont…—-request-for-information-and-deferral-of-determination.pdf
Suzanne Audrey (@AudreySuzanne) profile pictureSuzanne Audrey@AudreySuzanneSep 1
26/13497/BGP| Application for approval of details reserved by condition 5 (BNG) of permission 22/06015/FB - Engineering works to enable the Temple Island site for further development. 🤔 Landscape Specification - BNG Offsetting Well, it's in Bristol?! @BristolTreeFora @stillawake
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Here are our detailed representations: bristoltreeforum.org/wp-cont…
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The link is broken - use this instead - bristoltreeforum.org/wp-cont…
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Now, the smallest development sites - 0.2 hectares or smaller – no longer have to deliver a BNG of at least 10%. We wanted to know what difference this change will make to the protection of nature, and specifically trees, within Bristol... bristoltreeforum.org/2026/09…
Looking at Bristol’s development sites

Looking at Bristol’s development sites

Since the Government changed the biodiversity net gain (BNG) rules last month, the smallest development sites – 0.2 hectares or smaller – no longer have to deliver a BNG of at least 10% as pa…

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Since August this year, the smallest developments in England (those 0.2 hectares or smaller) no longer have to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG). We analysed 505 biodiversity gain plans and 320 readable statutory metric calculations. We found this: bristoltreeforum.org/2026/08…
Small sites, big losses: The BNG exemption is the strongest argument yet for a national tree...

Small sites, big losses: The BNG exemption is the strongest argument yet for a national tree...

Since 6 August this year, the smallest developments in England (those 0.2 hectares or smaller) no longer have to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG). To understand what this means for trees, we’ve …

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Where does our lost habitat go? Nine in ten urban developments now buy their biodiversity net gain somewhere else — 98% in London. On our analysis, at least 833 habitat units, net, have left England's towns for the countryside. bristoltreeforum.org/2026/08…
Where does our lost habitat go?

Where does our lost habitat go?

Biodiversity net gain is moving habitat out of towns — but small sites are not the reason why Two years into mandatory biodiversity net gain, a question worth asking is no longer whether developmen…

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Since the end of March, every council in England has had to publish a biodiversity report. Bristol must include details of the biodiversity net gain achieved when it approves a planning application where BNG is required. But has it? ... bristoltreeforum.org/2026/08…
What Bristol’s biodiversity duty report doesn’t tell you

What Bristol’s biodiversity duty report doesn’t tell you

By the end of March this year, every council in England had to publish a report on what it is doing for biodiversity. Councils that are also local planning authorities — Bristol among them — must g…

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Can anyone actually see how the biodiversity a developer has promised is being delivered? We have blogged about the administrative failings we have identified: bristoltreeforum.org/2026/08…
Biodiversity Net Gain – what the biodiversity gain plans approved actually show

Biodiversity Net Gain – what the biodiversity gain plans approved actually show

Since February 2024 biodiversity net gain has been mandatory for major development in England – and for small sites since April of that year. Two and a half years on, there’s still no p…

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Young Trees really need our help at the moment. If one is growing near you, please give it a good water.
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Suzanne Audrey@AudreySuzanneJul 30
Why was it considered "useful" to bring @BristolCouncil @bristolgreen Leader Tony Dyer "up to speed" on this planning application just before the planning meeting? whatdotheyknow.com/request/b… "The meeting was not minuted" @BristolTreeFora @bristol_citizen @stillawake @BrisMeadows
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When a development in one of England's most deprived neighbourhoods damages nature, the law requires compensation. We checked where that compensation actually goes — In 99% of cases: somewhere better off. Here is our detailed analysis: bristoltreeforum.org/wp-cont…
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Developers in England have a duty to improve the biodiversity of their development site by at least 10%. If a scheme cannot achieve this gain onsite, it can buy the shortfall from a habitat bank anywhere else in England ... bristoltreeforum.org/2026/07…
When a city builds, where does nature go?

When a city builds, where does nature go?

Since February 2024, developers in England have had a legal duty to improve the biodiversity of their development site by at least 10%. This Biodiversity Net Gain — BNG — is calculated in ‘habitat …

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The small-sites BNG rule change that could quietly cost your neighbourhood its trees. One tree used to be enough to trigger the BNG obligations. From 6 August 2026, up to 48 trees won't. bristoltreeforum.org/2026/07…
The small-sites rule change that could quietly cost your neighbourhood its trees

The small-sites rule change that could quietly cost your neighbourhood its trees

From 6 August 2026, a change to the planning rules takes effect that most people will never hear about — but it could reshape the trees on our streets, in our gardens and on the small plots being b…

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