• I WATCHED with horror last Monday as two tree-fellers removed a beautiful, healthy, magnolia tree, just coming into flower, from one of my neighbours’ gardens, apparently with the approval of Islington Council.

The reason given for the council’s approval was that the tree “was not visible from a public point of view, so not worthy of a TPO [tree protection order]” despite the fact that it clearly was visible from my window and the windows of many others, and it was also in the centre of the conservation area between Florence Street and Upper Street.

It should never have ever been considered for removal. I complained to the council by phone on the day while they were actually felling it and subsequently by email. Neither complaint has even been acknowledged.

I am appalled both by the felling and the lack of response from those who allowed this to happen, whose salaries I pay.

Note the council’s website states: “We only remove trees if they are dead, dying, diseased or have been proven causing subsidence.”

So what happened here?

ALISON MCGOWAN, N1