Sutton is famous for its street trees, over 20 000 in the Borough and over a thousand in our Ward. It is what gives Sutton its green, pleasant, suburban feel that people so like. Low crime, good schools and a pleasant suburban feel. We like Sutton.

A lot of correspondence with residents this summer about the basal growth of trees, which seems to have been particularly vigorous. The programme is well underway to cut it back and we are monitoring progress. We got them to give priority to Cavendish Road and some trees on street corners, like the one below, where the basal growth was affecting sight lines of car drivers at junctions.

Before

And after.

After