Council 'could buy more trees costing £10k each' despite uproar

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Blackpool Council had spent £100,000 planting 10 trees in Cookson Street in the town centre in 2019

There was uproar when it emerged Blackpool Council had spent £100,000 planting 10 trees in Cookson Street in the town centre in 2019. Then in 2022, the council spent £174,000 planting six trees in Edward Street.

Coun Adrian Hoyle said there “was not a tree in sight” around the new Holiday Inn Hotel due to open shortly on Talbot Road, and asked if there were plans to plant greenery there and queried the cost. Coun Jane Hugo, cabinet member for climate change, said the council would spend what was needed to plant trees if the funding was available.

 

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