Treeconomics is a social enterprise that seeks to highlight the benefits of trees and works to understand how they improve our urban spaces, making them better places to live. Given the number of trees we plant each year, we worked with Treeconomics this year on the data set for Alconbury Weald to assess our projected tree stock for Key Phase 1 and understand its objective value. This was done using a variety of assessment tools and methods, including the most widely used i- Tree Eco model. From this we learnt that once the first phase of Alconbury is complete. 51,130 trees, from 81 different species, will remove over 1.24 tonnes of airborne pollutants, and store over 170 tonnes of carbon, every year. We also found that after rainfall the projected extent of water held in the t

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