Northern Forest ‘very exciting’

THE NORTHERN FOREST, a plan to plant 50 million trees in and around the cities of Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and Hull, is a “very exciting project”, says David Renwick.

But he says the scheme, to improve levels of woodland coverage in the North, needed “a lot more work to actually develop how it would work” after it was launched in early 2018. NLHF has provided funding to help the Woodland Trust, which is running the scheme, set themselves up properly and improve governance.

Mr Renwick said: “So they’ve got a really good foundation to build on, that project is just about finished and we’re now kind of waiting to see what the next steps are and how we might support them.”