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The Trees and Design Action Group (TDAG) is a world first 
TDAG brings together a pioneering group of individuals, professionals and organisations from wide ranging disciples in both the public and private sectors to increase awareness of the role of trees in the built environment. Learn more about TDAG
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Trees in Hard Landscapes: A Guide for Delivery to be released very soon

The consultation period on TDAG's upcoming Trees in Hard Landscapes: A Guide for Delivery ended at 5pm on Friday 13 June, 2014. Thank you very to all of those who submitted responses for their encouraging and thoughtful advice.

The final publication date will be announced soon. Check again on this webage in a couple weeks for an update.

Trees in Hard Landscapes: A Guide for Delivery will be of particular interest to highway engineers, public realm professionals and tree specialists. It explores the practical challenges and solutions to integrating trees in 21st century streets, civic spaces and surface car parks, detailing process, design and technical options.

For producing this new guide, TDAG joined forces with the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT), the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), and the Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF), which which have all been active members of the steering group reviewing and advising throughout the development process. Trees in Hard Landscapes: A Guide for Delivery has also benefited from the input of over 100 built environments professionals and organisations from wide ranging disciplines and sectors who have taken part in interviews, contributed case study materials and/or offered feedback on earlier drafts.
Download your copy here (it's free!)
Has your local authority endorsed Trees in the Townscape: A Guide for Decision Makers?

Trees in the Townscape: A Guide for Decision Makers  offers 12 principles of best practice for all those involved in local decision making to ensure that our 21st century towns and cities are underpinned by a 21st century approach to urban trees, for maximum economic, social and environmental returns.

On June 26, 2012 when the guide was launched, the 12 principles of best practice it promotes had already received 12 endorsements from local authority councillors, local businesses or community organisations and social landlords as well as from government agencies such as the Forestry Commission! See our press release for more details on the launch.


“The aim of urban forestry is to improve the welfare of urban residents; the planting and care of trees is a means to that end, not an end in itself.”
Dr. Mark Johnston (1985) Community Forestry: a sociological approach to urban forestry, Arboricultural Journal 9, 121-126


Watch Rt. Hon. Norman Baker MP's June 2012 address on the importance of urban trees