Issue details
Cheltenham Tree Strategy
To consider the Tree Strategy, which sets out the council’s approach to managing, preserving, and expanding tree cover across Cheltenham.
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: For Determination
Notice of proposed decision first published: 04/04/2025
Decision due: 16 Dec 2025 by Cabinet
Lead member: Cabinet Member Planning and Building Control
Lead director: Director of Planning & Building Control - Tracey Birkinshaw
Contact: Sam Reader, Tree Officer Email: [email protected].
Consultation process
The Tree strategy will set out the Councils approach to managing, preserving, and expanding tree cover across Cheltenham. This will sit alongside the emerging Nature Recovery Supplementary Planning Document and forms part of the council’s climate emergency action plan: pathway to net zero.
This responds to Corporate Plan Priority 2 - Working with residents, communities and businesses to help make Cheltenham net zero by 2030.
Reports or documents to be used in arriving at decision
· Best practice from other councils & industry guidance
· Woodlands Trust – tree strategy checklist
· Tree equity score
· CBC/GCC tree data translated into GIS heat maps
Consultees
· Woodland Trust is a partner in developing the Tree Strategy – engagement is ongoing
· NCLB - youth engagement/community-based questionnaire – Spring 2025
· Broad engagement with wide range of stakeholders in input into Tree Strategy vision, objectives and outcomes – July 2025
· Targeted engagement with key stakeholders – July/August 2025
Officers to be consulted/involved in drafting the report
Climate Change Team
Ecologist
Finance
OneLegal
Communities Team