Debrecen4U February 6, 2025

Tree maintenance is scheduled according to the Green Codex

The Municipality of Debrecen greatly emphasises managing and maintaining the city’s tree population to ensure its preservation and development.

The Green Codex states as a fundamental principle and objective the preservation and reconstruction of valuable alleys from a cityscape and urban ecology perspective and the maintenance of “eternal lines of trees”.

In addition to new planting, great attention will continue to be paid to protecting existing trees and preserving the green urban environment through measures such as the ” Evergreen Tree – Debrecen Street Greening and Tree Reconstruction ” programme. There are characteristic and old alleys on many streets of Debrecen, which they take great care of. They continuously monitor and examine the city’s tree population and alleys, and tree treatments are carried out according to a plan and schedule.

The autumn-winter-early spring period, outside the bird nesting season, is an excellent time to carry out system-level tree care.

Accordingly, the pruning of the Puzdra, Péchy, and Szentgyörgyi streets has already been completed.

This week, the professional pruning work on Hatvan Street has started, while the work on Esze Tamás Street will be completed in parallel. On Thursday, tree maintenance work started in Kétmalom Street with a vehicle with a lifting basket.

Specialist contractors are carrying out the work under the supervision of the Green Spaces Department.

The Komlóssy and Bessenyei streets are also affected by the tree-care work. The works on Komlóssy Street are scheduled to be completed this week and will be followed by a specialist contractor on the adjacent Bessenyei Street over the next few days.

By continuously maintaining and replacing alleys, greener streets, healthier lines of trees, a more livable living environment, and sustainable urban development are achieved, and by ensuring the continuous vegetation cover of city streets, “forever lines of trees” can be created so that they will be preserved for generations to come.

The management of old trees is of paramount importance because, over the past decades, these trees have created green spaces of such a size that their canopy has a significant dust-filtering and pollutant-fixing capacity while also producing oxygen.

Thanks to their shade and evaporation, a cooler and, therefore, more tolerable microclimate is characteristic of their surroundings in the summer heat. Alleys are a vital tool for reducing the urban heat island effect and are an indispensable part of the urban environment.

Source:debrecen.hu