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Tree Planting in Whitstable This Autumn
This autumn is seeing an exciting commitment to tree planting and the CT5 Eco Group is delighted to be supporting this as part of its purpose to celebrate and save our natural world. On November 24th Canterbury City Council (CCC) is planting 100 trees at the Swalecliffe seafront by the water treatment plant. Through early December Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership with Kent County Council (KCC) are planting 1600 trees at Swalecliffe playing fields. On December 10
Edwina Neal


Would you like to see more trees in Whitstable?
Here’s a ‘how to’ guide from the CT5 People’s Forum Eco Group In the CT5 area we are very fortunate to have Blean Woods right on our doorstep but would you also like to see more trees in Whitstable itself? There are many positives about having trees in urban areas: for example they provide shade on hot days, they take pollutants out of the air and they also tend to increase property prices! One way to add trees is to plant them in grass verges which run along the side of
Edwina Neal
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