Belfast Tree Strategy

The Tree Strategy

We are producing a Tree Strategy to help manage and improve the tree-scape in the city, to provide a resilient and diverse urban forest for future generations.

The plan will have a 10-year lifespan and sets out a commitment to delivering key priorities and actions over the next three years.

Draft strategy

A draft Tree Strategy has been developed with input from the public and a wide range of stakeholders.

It draws on existing programmes such as Belfast One Million Trees, the Belfast Local Development Plan, and the Belfast Agenda. It clearly links tree planting and management with Belfast’s climate ambitions and the benefits that trees provide to health and wellbeing.

There are 37 targets, priorities and actions laid out in the draft Tree Strategy document and they are built around three key themes. They are:

1. Trees and Forest Structure
2. Community Framework
3. Sustainable Resource Management Approach

View our draft Tree Strategy

Have your say

The consultation closed on Monday 24 April 2023.

Supporting information

We have more information about our Tree Strategy. 

Draft Belfast Tree Strategy Equality Screening

We have a statutory duty to screen. This includes our strategies, plans, policies, legislative developments; and new ways of working such as the introduction, change or end of an existing service, grant funding arrangement or facility. This Equality Screening document considers the likely equality impacts of decisions on different groups of customers, service users, staff and visitors.    

View Equality Screening document

Rural Needs Impact Assessment (RNIA) Tree Strategy

This Rural Needs Assessment considers the potential impact of a policy or service on rural communities.

View Rural Needs Impact Assessment document