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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Isobel Williams

Grandmother, 89, who spent 25 years creating stunning street garden, ordered to tear it down by council

A council has told an 89-year-old grandma she may have to bin the street garden she has lovingly tended for decades after her neighbours complained about “antisocial behaviour”.

Katharine Hoskyns created a small oasis with a bench and some plant pots to cheer up the area outside her house in St John’s Wood, northwest London, more than 25 years ago.

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