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Colleen O’Sullivan (Camden) as Chair
Dale Mortimer (Ealing) as Vice chair
Barbara Milne (City of Westminster)
Andy Tipping (Barnet)
Grayham Tindal (Transport for London)
Craig Ruddick, (Richmond)
Richard Edwards (Croydon)
Oliver Stutter (Southwark)
Jessica Stocks (Kensington and Chelsea)
Simon Ffloulkes (Sutton)
Greg Packman (Islington)
Ajay Joshi (Lambeth)
Welcome from LTOA Chair
10.00am A word from David Archer Associates, our sponsor for the lunch
10.10am Presentation about Kew Gardens by Kevin Martin, Head of Tree Collections
10.40am Guided walk with Kevin Martin 1pm Lunch at Kew Gardens
1pm Lunch at Kew
(This seminar is for LTOA members only)
‘It is with profound sadness that I inform you that Dave Lofthouse passed away on 5 May 2022.
Dave had been an active LTOA executive member for over 25 years and Arboricultural Manager at Merton since 1989. He has made an enormous contribution to our profession during this time.
We offer deep condolences to his family, friends and colleagues and those of us who worked and shared time with Dave will miss him greatly.’
Agenda
9.30am Tea and coffee
10.00am Welcome from Andy Tipping, LTOA Chair
10.05am Update from Becky Porter, LTOA Executive Officer
10.10am Pherenice Worsey Buck, London Woodland Officer, Forestry Commission update for London
10.20am Questions
10.25am Laura Homfray, WSP, Natural Capital, Carbon and the role trees play
10.50am Questions
10.55am Tea and coffee
11.25am Robert Mathews, Forest Research, Trees and woodlands for carbon sequestration and GHG emissions reduction: recent evidence and available resources
11.55pm Questions
12pm Presentation about Lesnes Abbey
12.10pm Questions
12.15pm Lunch on site provided by the Chestnut Kiosk
1.15pm Guided walk around Lesnes Abbey woods for about an hour and half.
Thank you to Mark Taylor and Ian Holt, LB Bexley for hosting the meeting and providing tea, coffee and biscuits and Barcham Trees for sponsoring the lunch.
This is seminar is for LTOA members only.