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:

Coldfall Wood

Where we've planted trees

We’re planting hundreds of new trees every year in Haringey. You can see where on our maps:

Our plan is to continue planting trees for a greener Haringey.

Map of trees we've planted this year (2023-24)

What we planted in 2022-23

Haringey and our community have planted:

Two men planting a tree
Tree view

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 to at least 30% in every local ward
  • 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
Man planting a tree

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