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Trees
Trees play a big role in our health and wellbeing
Having trees in our community gives many benefits to our residents, including:
- reducing pollution
- reducing stress
- allowing community gardens to grow food
- helping to lower crime rates
- providing homes for different animals and insects
You can learn more about the benefits of trees on the Woodland Trust website
Tree protection
Find out more abut what we are doing to protect our trees, including:
Where we've planted trees
We protect and nurture thousands of existing trees in our community and have planted thousands more.
Our plan is to continue planting trees for a greener Haringey.
See our tree canopy cover by ward (2021/2022).
Map of trees we've planted this yearWhat we've planted in 2022-23
Haringey and our community have planted:
- 457 street trees, 93 in parks, 27 on housing estates and 1,000 in mini woodlands
- our first tiny forest in White Hart Lane Recreation Ground
- a small woodland in Perth Road Playing Fields
- 125 trees were community-funded by residents through our partner Trees for Streets.
What we're doing next with trees
To help create a greener Haringey we're:
- aiming to plant trees more evenly across Haringey and increase tree canopy cover by at least 30 per cent
- aiming to plant at least 10,000 trees by 2030
- re-writing planning documents to protect and add existing trees into the design and layout of any new development
- beginning a new Tree and Woodland plan and a faster maintenance programme for mature trees
How you can help with tree planting
Residents across Haringey are already supporting the project to green our grey neighbourhoods and we’re always looking for more help.
Trees for Streets supports residents, groups and organisations to sponsor the planting of a semi-mature tree. The Haringey scheme has encouraged groups of people to come together and fundraise for tree planting, including a Tottenham crowdfunded campaign to plant 18 trees.
If you want to fundraise to plant trees in your community you can visit the Haringey Trees for Streets pages.
How you can help with tree maintenance
You can help street trees with watering, weeding, mulching and more.
How to help look after street trees