Trees in South Hill Park

​​​Request 711318903​

Regarding the plans to "regenerate" South Hill Park (revealed at a meeting of the Havre Des Pas Improvement Group on 4th May 2022 by Ollie Brewster, an officer at the Infrastructure, Housing and Environment Department where he mentioned "removing some of the trees which have grown too large and are blocking views and depriving plants of light"), please supply the following:

1

How many trees existed in South Hill Park at the start of May 2022?

2

How many trees existed in South Hill Park immediately before Storm Ciaran hit the island on 1st/2nd November 2023?

3

How many trees exist in South Hill Park in May 2025?

4

How many new trees have been re-planted in South Hill Park to replace those lost during Storm Ciaran on 1st/2nd November 2023?

If necessary, use sources such as the Jersey Tree Map but please include actual total numbers of trees on those 3 dates rather than just visual maps without actual numbers. If statistics are not available for specific dates then include statistics for dates that are available which are close to the dates requested, e.g. if there are no statistics for the start of May 2022 then an alternative date in early 2022 would be acceptable.

Response

1, 2 and 3

The most recent tree survey for the whole of the South Hill/Mount Bingham area was carried out in 2015, which included South Hill Park, however, the tree count was not split per the South Hill Park area.

Therefore, the Scheduled Public Authority does not hold the requested information for May 2022, November 2023 and May 2025 and Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

4

The Scheduled Public Authority have not re-planted any trees in the requested area since Storm Ciaran.

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.​