More than 1,000 trees will be planted in Abingdon in efforts to tackle climate change.

Vale of White Horse District Council has just granted a community application for approximately 1,500 trees in Abingdon.

Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and so play a vital role in helping to reduce local emissions.

The application from Abingdon Carbon Cutters is the first to be approved following the launch of the council’s new tree planting policy, which outlines how the Vale will support local tree planting initiatives as well as how it will protect, plant and manage trees on council land.

Abingdon Carbon Cutters will plant the first 420 trees at Rye Farm Meadow, near the River Thames, this weekend, providing people with a woodland walk on their doorstep.

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The project will take place over the next three planting seasons and will see a mixture of hazel, crab apple, downy birch, hawthorn, and goat willow trees added to the area.

Sally Reynolds, from Abingdon Carbon Cutters, said: “We are delighted that the Vale has worked on simplifying the process of giving permission to plant trees, and have tried to make it user-friendly for local community groups.

“So many people have helped us to get to this point. The Woodland Trust donated all the trees, the tree guards are repurposed from nearby Besselsleigh Woods, and Oxford Wood Recycling and CAG Oxfordshire funded tree stakes. Local residents have registered to help plant the trees and we are holding our first tree planting event on 26 February, from 10am."

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