{"id":50826,"date":"2019-03-27T16:44:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=50826"},"modified":"2020-02-03T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:13:34","slug":"draft-of-urban-peri-urban-forestation-policy-shared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/draft-of-urban-peri-urban-forestation-policy-shared.html","title":{"rendered":"Draft of urban, peri-urban forestation policy shared"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lahore: A draft of the urban and peri-urban forest policy prepared by the Urban Unit of the Planning & Development Department has been shared with several members of the civil society, according to a news report.<\/p>\n

The policy proposes, among other things, that owners of 12 acres or more should reserve one acre of their lands for forestation purposes. Those owning less than 12 acres should grow at least 10 trees per acre.<\/p>\n

Read:\u00a0Huge chunk of forest land retrieved<\/a><\/p>\n

According to officials, various steps have also been proposed for increasing the forest cover in the province from its present three-percent ceiling. The policy has further set a tree canopy target of 5pc for streets, 10pc for urban areas, and 15pc for peri-urban areas.<\/p>\n

The \u2018one tree per 10 metres\u2019 rule has also been proposed for city streets, along roads, in housing societies \u2013 and for other public and private sector facilities.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the policy instructs every existing and new housing society to reserve 2.5% of its 7% mandatory open-space area for plantation purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lahore: A draft of the urban and peri-urban forest policy prepared by the Urban Unit of the Planning & Development Department has been shared with several members of the civil society, according to a news report. The policy proposes, among other things, that owners of 12 acres or more should reserve one acre of their lands for forestation purposes. Those owning less than 12 acres should grow at least 10 trees per acre. Read:\u00a0Huge chunk of forest land retrieved According to officials, various steps have also been proposed for increasing the forest cover in the province from its present three-percent ceiling. The policy has further set a tree canopy target of 5pc for streets, 10pc for urban areas, and 15pc for peri-urban areas. The \u2018one tree per 10 metres\u2019 rule has also been proposed for city streets, along roads, in housing societies \u2013 and for other public and private sector facilities. Similarly, the policy instructs every existing and new housing society to reserve 2.5% of its 7% mandatory open-space area for plantation purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":49541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[11093,11094],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-draft-of-urban","9":"tag-peri-urban-forestation-policy-shared","10":"cat-15181-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDraft of urban, peri-urban forestation policy shared - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: A draft of the urban and peri-urban forest policy prepared by the Urban Unit of the Planning & Development Department has been shared with\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/draft-of-urban-peri-urban-forestation-policy-shared.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Draft of urban, peri-urban forestation policy shared - 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