Street Trees

A legacy of shady streets

Social and health benefits of trees include promoting walking rather than driving, reducing sun exposure and creating green spaces for outdoor events and social gatherings. The environmental benefits of trees include reducing the air pollution and carbon emissions, providing shade and cool areas, habitat and biodiversity. Being able to put dollar figures on these values helps too. By lowering the cost of energy consumption, raising property values and attracting more people to the town, we can start to quantify their value.

Good street tree masterplans holistically review the existing street trees and provide an integrated design response for future tree planting. Choosing the right tree for the right place relies on an understanding of the surrounding context and climate. Other considerations include mature size, traffic requirements, potential pests and diseases, surrounding services (both below and overhead), the useful life expectancy of existing trees and opportunities to implement a succession planting program to ensure continual impact and shade. We are meticulous in understanding asset, infrastructure and maintenance concerns.

We have completed street tree masterplans as part of a larger masterplans/town concepts, as well as street tree planting plans and strategies at street, development, district and whole town scale.