Labour's 'chainsaw massacre' of trees in Lambeth
Labour Lambeth has been hacking down almost 300 trees across the borough in just one year. During the same period the Council only planted 138 new saplings.
Labour councillors have boasted about its green credentials after the introduction of increased parking permit charges for cars with large engines, but at the same time approved plans to merge Windrush Square and Tate Gardens in Brixton in a scheme that will see the amount of green space reduced. It also hopes to push ahead with with a traffic jam-busting road scheme in Herne Hill that will see a chunk of Brockwell Park lost to speed up the journeys of passing cars, buses and lorries.
Conservative Environment spokeswoman Clare Whelan has slammed Labour's hypocrisy, saying: "This is a chainsaw massacre. Lambeth is cutting down trees quicker than it is planting them."
Labour councillors have boasted about its green credentials after the introduction of increased parking permit charges for cars with large engines, but at the same time approved plans to merge Windrush Square and Tate Gardens in Brixton in a scheme that will see the amount of green space reduced. It also hopes to push ahead with with a traffic jam-busting road scheme in Herne Hill that will see a chunk of Brockwell Park lost to speed up the journeys of passing cars, buses and lorries.
Conservative Environment spokeswoman Clare Whelan has slammed Labour's hypocrisy, saying: "This is a chainsaw massacre. Lambeth is cutting down trees quicker than it is planting them."
posted by Cllr John Whelan on 13:14
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