The Reading Between the Limes exhibition draws attention to Waltham Forest Council’s plans to chop down 81 mature trees.
The avenue of lime trees that connects Walthamstow Central Station with the high street is not only pleasing to behold but acts as a sponge, soaking up pollution from the adjoining bus station (mature lime trees are good at doing this).
The council says it will plant many trees elsewhere to make up for their loss, but new trees take decades to be any kind of substitute for established trees.
Leave them be, Waltham Forest Council, but please do plant trees elsewhere too.
Ken Ewings Higham Hill Road, Walthamstow
The exhibition was created by local artists to the proposed felling of 81 trees, including many from Lime Tree Walk, as part of the redevelopment.
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