How Trees Make Properties & Developments Sell Faster
Whether you’re a landscape architect or other specifier working on a design, or a developer building a property, a quick and efficient sale for your finished project can be of utmost importance. Urban trees can contribute to reducing the length of time that properties spend on the market, increased exponentially by the presence of mature […]
The Arb Association Engages Westminster
Not inside the hallowed halls of Westminster but in the Victoria Tower gardens on a warm July morning, the Arb Association organised an engagement event for members of the Lords and the Commons. It was exciting to have a tree climbing demonstration integrated into the proceedings this year with a detailed explanation of all the […]
How Trees Increase Property Values
Research has proven that trees provide significant benefits for developers and property owners by increasing property values and selling prices. One US study even determined that large street trees were the single most important indicator of attractiveness in a community (Coder, 1996). These advantages are a result of several inter-related benefits that trees convey, including […]
How the LTOA is Making a Difference for Street Trees
GreenBlue Urban are delighted to have sponsored the LTOA July Seminar, kindly hosted by the London Borough of Barnet. GBU sponsored the production of the latest guidance Surface materials around trees in hard landscapes. This guidance is particularly welcome at a time when many local authorities face challenges to budgets and resources and a care […]
Announcing our 25th Anniversary
GreenBlue Urban are delighted to celebrate their 25th silver anniversary. The month was July, the year 1992, a landscape gardener from Hastings, East Sussex having studied horticulture, arboriculture, tree nomenclature and landscape design at Plumpton Agricultural College soon realised there were causes for early tree mortality. On a particularly dry summer he discovered that drought […]
How to Make an Unsustainable Landscape Sustainable
Rome wasn’t built in a day. And considering that it’s over 2,500 years old, it’s fair to say that it has sustained a fair bit in its day. Over the past year, Rome has improved its ranking in the world’s top ten sustainable cities from 8th place to 7th, based on sustainable environment factors. Not […]
The Implementation of Blue Green Corridors
In the last decade there has been a significant rise in the number of green, or what are now being termed as “blue-green” corridors, being established in our dense urban environments in order to enhance and maintain existing habitats by connecting fragmented and isolated ecosystems. Benedict and MacMahon (2006), in their definition of green infrastructure, […]
How Trees Help Gain Planning Permission
The preservation of existing large specie trees, and the planting of new ones, can help developers gain planning permission for urban developments much more readily. As part of standard planning permission for most urban developments, local authorities require site improvement and mitigation of potential damage to natural settings. Designers and developers can implement large specie […]
Garden cities and their role in the community
Whilst working with Local Authorities across the United Kingdom, GreenBlue Urban have watched the renaissance of the garden cities and garden village concepts with fascination. Originally planned in the early part of the twentieth century, places like Welwyn and Letchworth were designed as healthier, happier, more liveable places, to enable people to live, work and […]
ArborFlow – Installing a SUDS/LID Tree Pit
Great news we have compiled a comprehensive yet simple video for installing a Sustainable Urban Drainage System (SUDS/LID) tree pit. Dean Bowie CEO of GreenBlue Urban details the simple steps from ground preparation, laying of soil cells, root management, aeration, installation of ArborFlow stormwater panels, ground preparation and permeable paving. Watch Now! ArborFlow – has […]