Look after your tree pit
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Would you like to adopt a tree pit?
This programme helps residents to take the essential steps in planting and maintaining tree pits.
Tree pits are the unpaved areas around the base of trees that enables them to be watered better and serve as water receptacles so it can soak into the soil.
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Who is eligible?
Conditions to adopt a tree pit
- Applicants must be age 18 or older.
- Applicants must live, study or work in Barcelona.
- Applicants must adopt at most three tree pits.
- Applicants must maintain a tree pit for at least one year.
- Applicants must report on tree pit maintenance every year.
- Follow the Planting calendar for climbing plants.
- Post an informative tree pit poster.
- Locate tree pits with the AR code of the Biodiversity Atlas.
Where can they be planted
- Tree pits in slow lanes (<50 km/h) or more than 1.5 metres from a fast lane (≥ 50 km/h).
- Pits of healthy trees with a trunk that does not occupy more than 80% of the pit.
- Tree pits that are not specifically programmed by the City Council or are not already adopted.
What can be planted there?
- Non-toxic or allergenic trees, trees without thorns and non-invasive species.
- Plants that do not interfere with the tree’s growth.
- Ornamental plants (non-horticultural and not meant to eat).
How should I do this?
- Online procedure
You can submit the application to adopt one or more tree pit on the Online Procedures Office.
Submit the application
- In-person application
a. At any Citizen Help and Information Office (OAC).
b. You must submit an affidavit.
Download the affidavit
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Contact us
Please use the form available on the Barcelona City Council’s Citizen Help and Information Portal if you have any questions or suggestions.