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New £6m funding for public realm improvements in Low Emission Neighbourhoods Public realm improvements, green walls and a pocket park form part of projects approved for £6 million of funding from The Mayor of London Air Quality Fund.

North Somerset Council tenders for grounds and tree maintenance services North Somerset Council is offering two maintenance contracts worth up to £25 million over 14 years.

Government begins putting Net Zero aims on statute book A statutory instrument to implement the government's goal of eradicating the UK's net contribution to climate change by 2050 has been laid in Parliament.

Hillier supplies disease-free elms to council Hillier Trees has recently supported Coventry City Council and a local residents' group in their quest to maintain feature trees in Stoke Green Park.

Thames Water defends hosepipe ban threat citing extreme weather conditions Thames Water has said gardeners can do more to avoid water restrictions after nine months out of the last 12 saw less than average rainfall,

LDA Design appoints new managing director LDA Design has appointed partner Mike Foster as its managing director.

New urban design practice wins Garden City design competition with its first project New urban design and architecture practice EcoResponsive Environments has won the Re-Imagining the Garden City Design Ideas Competition with its debut project.

RHS Wisley Welcome Building £22m development opens with 100-seater restaurant and enhanced plant centre Wisley's Welcome Building, featuring a garden centre, ticket office and landscaping by Christopher Bradley-Hole is being opened today by Alan Titchmarsh.

Council seeks dashcam footage of vandals who girdled roadside trees Salford City Council said it will have to fell two "huge" roadside trees after vandals ring-barked them for no apparent reason.

Johnsons of Whixley supply plants to new 5-star hotel in the Yorkshire Dales Johnsons of Whixley has supplied thousands of plants to Grantley Hall, a new 5-star luxury hotel in the Yorkshire Dales that is set to open on 6 July 2019.

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