Conservative candidate for Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has unveiled a new policy committed to
planting 10,000 street trees across London by the end of his first term.
The £1million funding for street trees per year will be funded from the cancellation of Ken Livingstone's promotional publication The Londoner.
The proposal is to work in partnership with environmental charities to bring street trees to those areas of London that need them
most.
On average his scheme will plant 250 trees in each area, and all 40 areas will have trees planted by the end of the four-year Mayoral term. Londoners will be able to vote on the GLA website to determine the order in which areas are planted.
Mr Boris Johnson said: "In the last few years a third of boroughs have seen a decline in the number of street trees and the Mayor has done nothing to reverse this trend.
"Trees give the capital its identity as one of the world's greenest cities. But these trees are not distributed equally around the capital. Many London streets, particularly in deprived areas, have no street trees at all. Why should those streets with more expensive houses get trees when others don't?"
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