Council donates trees to the local community
Wednesday, 12 June 2019
As part of our project to upgrade the A421 road links between Junction 13 of the M1 motorway in Central Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes, we have been out donating tree saplings to the local community.
We are transplanting 300 young trees, as they were growing where the new dual carriageway road will be built.
Yesterday (11 June) the first relocated trees were delivered to pupils at the Walton High school at Brooklands in Milton Keynes. Other trees are being donated to the HULA Animal Rescue Centre in Aspley Guise, and to Brogborough Parish Council.
Councillor Ian Dalgarno, Executive Member for Community Services at Central Bedfordshire Council, said: “Trees help support biodiversity, limit climate change and make an area more attractive, and we didn’t want these saplings to go to waste. Rather than cut them down, we’ve been eco-friendly and relocated them instead. We are delighted that we’ve been able to find them such great new homes where local schoolchildren, residents and the rescue animals at the HULA centre will all be able to enjoy them instead.”