ACTION: On Climate Change

September 21, 2019 in News

You may remember some time ago, I posted on social media about the proposition of planting trees in our area. I have since received a response from officers with some suggestions of areas that we could plant in.

Undoubtedly, planting trees will help with climate change - even if it makes a 0.0000000001% difference it's worth doing right?Dab21545

Here are the areas officers have suggested

Together, we need to decide on the best site and then we can move on to an application for trees from various organisations. Please get in touch if you want to be involved in this project or leave a comment below.

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James Newport

Essex County Councillor for Rayleigh North, Rochford District Councillor for Downhall & Rawreth and Rayleigh Town Councillor for Sweyne.