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Campaigners have begun protesting the removal of trees on the Greenwich peninnsula. Campaigners who oppose the Silvertown Tunnel say there is “fury boiling over” after plans including the felling of more than 100 trees were swiftly withdrawn. At least 111 trees were earmarked for destruction in a planning application submitted to Greenwich Council in January by Riverlinx, the consortium in charge of delivering the tunnel. Though the application was withdrawn just 10 days after being submitted, campaigners say they fear a “barrage of new lesser planning applications” that could see the trees gradually destroyed. Kate Middleton, a local campaigner, said: “It’s really devastating because you know from other campaigns that the trees are the things that go first, but we just kind of assumed that they would take down the trees from the actual work site. And so the fact that they’re taking down all the streets’ trees is just criminal really, it’s vandalism.”