At tonight’s local TRA meeting, residents had the opportunity to find out about the Council’s tree policy. Sixty years ago trees were planted by roads, in council house property gardens and communal spaces that were fast growing, cheep to source and could cope with a much polluted urban environment. Unfortunately the trees are now often twice the height of houses and pruning them is very, very difficult. Without the houses sandwiched between them, they would be an amazing forest. We are trying to find solutions to enable the trees and residents to live in peace. Our local Community Police Officer came to talk about her role and answer questions and the group had to cram organising a community clean-up in the last twenty minutes. It’s a lively embryonic group and I hope and hope that more residents will get involved so that they can start to apply for funding to work on bigger projects to benefit them, the community and local environment.