Yeah I thought it was an interesting piece of news. I guess it won't solve everyone's problems... but at least having trees out there is better than nothing even if it's just for our environments sake. Plus you could just grow nice fruit trees and get the benefits of that as well.

In regards to the trees taking up car parking space, I don't mind parking underneath a tree at all. What I mean by this is like... its a one way road, and the only way you can get parking is along that road. But periodically in the middle on the far left and right hand side are trees and poles so people don't hit the trees or i guess know how far to go before they could potentially hit one. They take up the size of a car, but they don't provide shaded protection for the cars - they're just there to look pretty.

I guess we dont look after the trees in England as well as you do - here the trees are pole-less and just get bumped! New trees have stakes tied to stop them falling over while they're top heavy from being planted, but I guess you dont mean stakes, I asume you mean bollards? I've bumped a few invisible ones of those in my time.