City Hall has called for thousands of London’s ancient trees to be protected after a 500-year-old oak was felled in Enfield and the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree was axed in a mindless act of “drunken stupidity”.
The London Assembly has written to the government calling for stronger protections for all trees over 100 years old in the capital, asking it to explore what further measures could be introduced to shield trees from harm.
