Isn't this part of the city centre wide Maritime project we got 14M from the National Lottery Heritage Fund towards, includes the Maritime Museum upgrade, Light Ship and Arctic Corsair upgrade, new visitor centre at High Street and Queens Gardens links it together so Yes it's all worth it, why wouldn't we want to win funding and spend it on our maritime heritage?
It's badged as part of it, but not funded by it. The money is internal. https://maritimehull.co.uk/projects/queens-gardens
Cheers DMD, well it sounds like a good investment in the city centre by HCC, complementing a wider project, money well spent.
All In favour of the other stuff but the way it was presented on look north and calendar they are spending 10 million on the gardens and from the artist impression they showed it looked much the same as it is now.
The trees are different. They've replaced the older ones (due to a much debated assessment) with non-indigenous saplings that are not compatible with local flora and fauna.
I don't recall the specifics. It was ecologists that I was talking to, and most of the names of the trees etc went in one ear and out of the other to be honest.
This is from the article out of the dull daily. The council has also pledged to plant three trees in the gardens and elsewhere when 35 mature Poplars are cut down later this year. They will be replaced with semi-mature Metasequoia trees which the council said would replicate the avenue included in Frederick Gibberd's 1950s plans for the redesign of the gardens.
Yep, quite believable that the HDM would put without question to plant 3 trees in the gardens and elsewhere to replace the 35 being cut down and also say that this would replicate the avenue (presumably of trees)
Remember that not only are the planting them in the gardens but elsewhere too. So that must be 1 elsewhere and an avenue of 2 trees in the gardens.
I hope if they are small ones they have good protection as idiots love breaking them off , 5 near me planted about 18 months ago , only two left now .
Article today in HDM about The Maltings , more apartments being done , apparently ‘ plumping’ being installed , nice to have a feature that makes your pillows look nice LOL
The specific percentage depends on which figures you go by, but for a variety of reasons a low percentage of trees planted for ecology schemes, including in the Amazon, survive to maturity, and those that do can cause more harm than good if not done appropriately https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/blo... not effective,of deforestation in 2019 alone. https://e360.yale.edu/features/are-huge-tree-planting-projects-more-hype-than-solution "But a growing number of scientists and environmentalists are challenging this narrative on tree-planting. They say that planting programs, especially those based on large numerical targets, can wreck natural ecosystems, dry up water supplies, damage agriculture, push people off their land — and even make global warming worse. They point to flaws in the studies that have inspired large-scale programs, and say that harmful types of tree planting are regularly conflated with beneficial natural forest restoration. Tree planting can distract from the greater priorities of protecting existing forests and reducing fossil fuel use, they say, and conserving and restoring natural open ecosystems, like grasslands, can often deliver more benefits than afforestation."
Same is happening down the old Hornsea railway track . Lots of little ones getting planted and kids just snapping them as well as ripping down the new fence . They given up with putting benches at Swine as they got smashed up . They even tried one of those really thick plastic style ones that you can't smash up . They burnt it to cinders instead .
Never mind, we can look forward to the refurbed lightship, trawler, museum, Queens Gardens and Albion Street development. All the brainchild of the previous administration which will see the current one receive the kudos. All thanks to the tunnel visioned bicycle rider. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
