{"id":492184,"date":"2026-03-24T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492184\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:34:08","slug":"tree-planting-plan-rejected-by-shameful-runneymede-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492184\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree-planting plan rejected by &#8216;shameful&#8217; Runneymede council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Berardi said he had repeatedly been told the council, which he claimed has a &#8220;very embarrassing&#8221; target of planting 20 trees a year, did not have any money to do its own planting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This would seem the obvious solution. You have many other councils that are bending over backwards to support voluntary planting,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Runnymede Borough Council said it had a long track record of supporting community groups<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it said the petition&#8217;s wording &#8220;effectively opened up&#8221; all areas of the borough to planting, which could pose &#8220;major headaches&#8221;, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The petition is due to be considered at a council meeting on 17 June. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berardi said he had repeatedly been told the council, which he claimed has a &#8220;very embarrassing&#8221; target of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-492184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}