2018-01-12 Local residents protest against HS2 at Euston
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London, UK. 12th January, 2018. Local residents Anne Stevens, vicar of St Pancras, and Jo Hurford chain themselves to a mature tree outside Euston station as part of a protest against the HS2 high-speed rail link. The protest formed part of a long campaign by local residents against the planned felling of mature London Plane, Red Oak, Common Whitebeam, Common Lime and Wild Service trees in Euston Square Gardens to make way for temporary sites for construction vehicles and a displaced taxi rank for the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link.
Euston Square Gardens is a scarce, and much loved, oasis of mature trees alongside one of the most polluted roads in London.
HS2 has recently razed the nearby three-acre St James’s Gardens, felling its mature London Plane, Common Ash, Italian Alder, Common Lime, Bird Cherry, Wild Cherry and Sugar Maple trees, with plans to disinter 45,000 skeletons at a former burial ground there later in 2018.
Many mature trees will also be felled by HS2 along streets in the Euston area such as Hampstead Road and Eversholt Street and other nearby open spaces will disappear on the Regents Park Estate.
Euston is an area where local people experience an exacerbation of respiratory conditions and where EU air quality standards have been regularly infringed.
Euston Square Gardens is a scarce, and much loved, oasis of mature trees alongside one of the most polluted roads in London.
HS2 has recently razed the nearby three-acre St James’s Gardens, felling its mature London Plane, Common Ash, Italian Alder, Common Lime, Bird Cherry, Wild Cherry and Sugar Maple trees, with plans to disinter 45,000 skeletons at a former burial ground there later in 2018.
Many mature trees will also be felled by HS2 along streets in the Euston area such as Hampstead Road and Eversholt Street and other nearby open spaces will disappear on the Regents Park Estate.
Euston is an area where local people experience an exacerbation of respiratory conditions and where EU air quality standards have been regularly infringed.
