Residents of the Birkdale area will have another opportunity to collect a free whip this Saturday morning. The handout of the whips (or small trees) has been organised by Birkdale Ward’s three councillors with the cost being funded by Sefton Council.
Last Saturday morning saw a successful handout in Birkdale Village by Councillors Simon Shaw, Sonya Kelly and Iain Brodie Browne (pictured above) and this Saturday 11th March they will be at the Liverpool Road Methodist Church, corner of Liverpool Road and Sandon Road, Birkdale.
They will be there from 10.30 to 12.15 and five varieties of trees will be available, all suitable for planting in gardens.
With a new street tree costing around £500, the councillors have decided that, for rather less than the cost of one new street tree, they can get hundreds of trees planted by residents, helping to improve the streetscene and the environment generally.
As the whips are being paid for out of the Birkdale Ward Area Budget, the offer applies to residents in that part of Birkdale to landward of the railway line.