Cash-strapped councils are often left with little choice but to fell trees as they would otherwise incur bills running into the millions to keep them standing, a Labour MP has said.
Catherine West told the Commons many veteran trees in cities across the UK are “at risk of being felled” and accused the Government of not doing “nearly enough” to protect them.
The Hornsey and Wood Green MP said in her constituency there is a “growing problem” of street trees being cut down because “they are implicated as a cause of building damage and subsidence”.
