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Tree Cover

Answer

The National Inventory of Woodland and Trees and the 1980 Census of Woodland did not record or publish data by London borough. However, the London Biodiversity Partnership's biodiversity audit 2000 included woodland and scrub habitat and this produced the results given in the following table.

Woodland and scrub in London (area in hectares)
Borough	Native woodland	Non-native	Coniferous	Fen carr	Scrub
Barking and Dagenham	5.7	0.9	—	0.4	28.0
Barnet	277.6	66.3	8.3	—	126.0
Bexley	104.0	119.4	14.7	0.2	59.0
Brent	19.0	5.4	—	—	31.9
Bromley	1424.8	302.6	63.4	0.8	139.7
Camden	116.2	18.3	1.1	—	2.5
City of London	—	—	—	—	0.2
Croydon	638.7	62.0	36.9	—	166.7
Ealing	69.8	11.1	0.6	—	64.6
Enfield	372.0	17.3	17.7	0.3	62.2
Greenwich	218.1	53.7	0.4	—	73.3
Hackney	6.3	9.8	—	0.2	1.4
Hammersmith and Fulham	1.0	8.0	—	—	8.5
Haringey	77.9	18.3	0.4	—	8.2
Harrow	218.5	25.2	8.8	1.3	51.5
Havering	307.5	55.7	0.3	10.5	122.4
Hillingdon	614.1	42.6	0.9	2.6	156.4
Hounslow	76.8	24.1	2.1	—	98.4
Islington	1.7	1.7	—	—	1.5
Kensington and Chelsea	3.9	11.1	—	—	3.3
Kingston	95.5	17.8	2.1	—	25.5
Lambeth	17.1	17.5	—	—	14.2
Lewisham	42.9	40.5	0.6	—	19.3
Merton	142.5	8.1	—	—	62.0
Newham	2.7	5.0	—	—	33.0
Redbridge	158.4	41.9	—	—	78.9
Richmond	396.2	78.0	0.9	—	35.2
Southwark	47.7	34.4	0.0	—	11.6
Sutton	36.5	57.0	2.6	—	42.8
Tower Hamlets	3.0	4.1	—	—	7.3
Waltham Forest	228.2	9.2	0.8	—	28.5
Wandsworth	169.4	37.2	—	—	14.4
Westminster	2.6	3.8	—	—	0.4

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

14005; 436 c2316-8W;436 c2316-8W

Session

2005-06

Related items

Tree Cover
Wednesday, 13 July 2005
Written questions
House of Commons

Subjects

Greater London Trees