Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 32188

Roads: Tree Planting

Tabled: 21 February 2025
Answered: 3 March 2025

Question

Jerome Mayhew

ConservativeBroadland and Fakenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of amending the Highways Act 1980 to increase roadside trees planting.

Answer

Lilian Greenwood
The Department does not have plans to amend the Highways Act 1980 on this particular topic. The Department does, however, encourage local highway authorities to recognise the contribution that trees make to the economic, social and environmental well-bein...

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