Residents devastated at row of trees home to endless wildlife destroyed in Hornchurch.

London Green Party Disability Officer and local campaigner Ruth Kettle-Frisby today writes in the Havering Daily on the brutal cutting down of more trees across our borough.

Residents living in a road near Harrow Lodge Primary School have reported making a request to the Partnership Learning Multi Academy Trust to trim the tallest branches of some trees on their grounds because they were damaging residential fences.

Devastatingly, and disproportionately according to neighbouring residents, the Trust have responded by completely destroying over ten trees so far, and with them the precious natural habitats of local wildlife, with even more destruction planned.

Residents report that given that the trees were on Harrow Lodge Primary School grounds, they were not protected by tree preservation.

Ten trees and habitats to thriving wildlife are said to have been planted around 40 years ago, and have now been completely cut down.

One resident reports that “the squirrels are in shock” and that residents are “heartbroken”.

They can’t fathom why, in an area where the School Streets scheme has been implement to reduce air pollution and clean the air, the lungs of the school grounds in the form of well-established trees are being destroyed.

Residents are incredulous and distressed by the decision, which they say has been devastating for precious local wildlife.

One resident reports that the Trust are said to have received “too many complaints” about the trees from residents, however the resident in question vehemently denies this to be the case.

The trees before.

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