York Minster, York, Yorkshire, England, UK Neale Clark/robertharding/Alam​y
I recently moved back to my hometown, York, a small city in the north of England. It is historically rich and culturally vibrant, but lacking in one department: trees. According to the council, its canopy cover was in 2022, which is on the low side. The European average is around 15 per cent and London has around .
York has plans to do something about this, in recognition of the fact that urban trees have myriad benefits. These include cooling, carbon sequestration, pollution…
