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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 – May 2025
This includes TDAG events and activities; events organised by others and an extensive list of new publications and research. We would like to encourage more research dissemination and so are introducing a ‘Research Round-up – Implications for practitioners’ inviting researchers to tell us about their completed projects and why they are relevant for practitioners working with trees. Please submit a short outline here. 
Our next online seminar Resilience to tree pests and diseases will be on 10th June 2-4pm BST
Our trees are subject to increased threats of pests and diseases. This seminar will review what the government, suppliers, and all those working with trees can do to build resilience to pests and pathogens under our changing climate. Free to attend. All welcome. Please register here.
Resilience relates to more than climate resilience. We need environmental, economic and social resilience to the multiple challenges that we find ourselves facing. Trees can make a remarkable contribution to many aspects of resilience, as well as the need for us to help trees to be resilient themselves. The seminars for 2025, reflecting suggestions from TDAG members, will explore different aspects of designing and delivering resilience and the contribution that trees will make.
Full details and registration are available in Events. Information filled TDAG stand at Futurebuild
The full Futurebuild 2025 knowledge programme recordings are now available without charge to watch 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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