• THE council’s climate greenwash unfairly pits trees against people.

Islington’s “climate emergency” has turned out to be hot air, making a mockery of Claudia Webbe’s demands for an “urgent and comprehensive response”.

In one of the borough’s pollution hot spots, Highbury Corner, the council is going ahead with felling 18 trees in Dixon Clark Court.

The council inaccurately justifies this disaster as social housing or the trees, when new-builds and nearly half of these trees could easily live side by side.

However, the current plans to kill all these trees mean greater pollution for those who will live in the proposed social housing. How is this making our borough a “fairer place for all”?

ALEX COX
N4