By Katherine Turner
This week saw volunteers give up their time to plant much-needed trees at Western Flatts Cliff Park in Wortley.
As previously reported, Leeds City Council and the Friends of Western Flatts Cliff Park group have set a target of planting 3,000 trees in the popular park.
Over 30 volunteers joined council rangers to plant a mixture of tree varieties on Saturday morning.
Caroline Webb and her partner Ned Redmore said: “It’s a good thing to do for Leeds, we love our community. It’s nice to be out on a Saturday morning, it makes you feel like you have done something good with your weekend. Connecting with others, we understand Leeds’ ambition to plant more trees and be part of those efforts.
“Hopefully we can capture more carbon and help create more habitats for wildlife. Leeds has such beautiful green spaces and we want to help keep that.”
With plans to create a woodland space for future generations, there is still a way to go to reach the target of 3,000 trees being planted.
Neil Bonnington, chair of the Friends group, told WLD how pleased they are with the progress: “We are delighted to support the Woodland Creation Team and LCC in this initiative. We have been looking forward to this since the levelling up program was introduced.
“By planting trees in this area we hope that this will reduce the issue with excess water flow. It will support a greater diversity of wildlife. We would like to give a big thanks to the rangers and everyone who came from the local community to volunteer on the day.”
Some trees had recently been planted by the council, with around 1,500 trees left to plant and around 1,000 trees planted on the day by volunteers, which is a fantastic achievement.
Anyone wanting more information or to volunteer can e-mail friends@fowfcp.org.uk.
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