Ambitious plans to spend a total of £200,000 over the next four years planting trees across Cambridge are being launched by Cambridge City Council. The move supports the Liberal Democrats’ manifesto pledge at the last council elections to replace every tree on council land that needed to be removed.

‘Though the city will continue to change, as it always has, Liberal Democrats on the City Council are committed to nurture its timeless tradition of fine architecture, conservation and open space both in what wehave already and what is new. In pursuit of this we will …invest in our nature reserves to improve bio-diversity and supplement the one-for-one replacement of diseased trees on public open space with a major additional investment in new tree planting on Midsummer Common and Jesus Green’

To read the full 2010 manifesto, click here.

Despite a tough economic climate and budget restraints, £50,000 will be spent each year for the next four years on replacement trees.