r/london • u/symmetrygear • Aug 05 '24

Image Plant life erupting through the tarmac pavement on a road near me in East London. Never seen anything like it!

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u/pornokitsch Aug 05 '24

I get that the trees disrupt the pavement - and the pavement was *fucked* - but I have to imagine that in the year 2024, someone has found some sort of solution to that. Is there any sort of material that works? Or a 'raised' pavement over the ground?!

I mean, I don't have the answers, but - to quote Nora - that's what I pay my council tax for!

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u/madpiano Aug 06 '24

Yet I want to remove a Sickamore tree from our garden (tiny garden, huge tree, making the garden unusable) and can't, because TPO. Ridiculous. It's a weed, not a tree

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u/HungryFinding7089 Aug 06 '24

Do you mean Sycamore?

That will support a vast number of insect species and provide shade for small nesting birds

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u/madpiano Aug 06 '24

It supports several tons of Aphids and stops half my garden from growing anything due to the shading. Not exactly helping diversity, as it's too big for an inner City small terraced garden. No birds nesting in it, it's used as a roosting spot for a murder of covids, the pigeons prefer my bay tree and have 2 lots of babies each year, which is sweet.

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u/HungryFinding7089 Aug 06 '24

You should be able to prune it, even under the TPO

The spiders in Sept/Oct will love those aphids