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The Trees and Design Action Group (TDAG), brings together individuals, professionals, academics and organisations from wide ranging disciplines in both the public and private sectors to improve knowledge and good practice to support the role of urban trees through better collaboration in the planning, design, construction and management and maintenance of our urban places.
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NewsTDAG Newsletter – September 2024
This includes TDAG events and activities; events organised by others and an extensive list of new publications and research. Please let us know if you have any events or information to share and we will include them in our next newsletter. Contact details are below. 
BS 5837 Draft for public consultation is available (closing 16th October 2024)
British Standard BS 5837 Trees in relation to design, demolition and construction has been revised to reflect changes since 2012. A draft for public consultation is available to comment on here. Registration and login are required, with all comments visible on the BSI development portal. Please share this with anyone you think might be interested.
BS 8545 Trees: from nursery to independence in the landscape was being developed when BS 5837 was last published, and to reflect its comprehensive coverage and avoid duplication, tree planting design has been removed from BS 5837. Amendments to BS 8545 will therefore address this change with its draft for public consultation published soon.
Reflections on Trees, People and the Built Environment 5
Collaboration was the positive theme of the conference. We reflect on the discussions and possible next steps.
Futurebuild – full knowledge programme recordings
You can access all the sessions for the Futurebuild Conference, the National Retrofit Conference and the seminars across five stages covering Buildings, Energy, Materials, Sustainable Infrastructure and Digital here. The sessions on the Sustainable Infrastructure stage are of particular interest including the Treeconomics/TDAG session on Finding your way through the urban forest with Kenton Rogers and Keith Sacre. Available here.
This is published alongside an update of Section One and outlines how such a strategy can be developed for local authorities and for all owners of trees and woodlands.
Accompanying this, Appendix: Urban forest sustainability performance Indicators for the UK is an aid to monitory progress once a strategic plan has been agreed. Briefing Note 01: Legislation, policy and guidance on trees and development throughout the UK adds further support. With the evidence-based understanding that urban trees can delivery multiple social, environmental and economic benefits particularly in the context of our two critical challenges of climate change and biodiversity decline, ensuring that existing urban trees are retained and that new trees are a requirement for all new developments, TDAG is calling for all local authorities to have adopted tree strategies. Available from Our Guides. |
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