Urgent! Happy Man Tree to Be felled imminently . Other trees already being cut down. Protesters face two year jail sentences,
The 150 year old Happy Man Tree mentioned in this article is among 41 mature trees being cut down as we speak. The story has reached national news with protesters facing 2 year jail sentences
I went this afternoon after hearing that felling had already begun, and met with the local campaign group friends of the happy man tree ,
To clarify the Happy Man Tree itself has not yet been cut down, but when I arrived at around 16:00 today, chainsaws were already out, and several huge mature trees just behind the Happy Man Tree were in the process of being cut down.
Reflections on 2020
By Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley | Wednesday 16 December 2020 at 14:20
Sisters Ella and Leona Lewis start a minute’s silence at the We Grieve ‘memori-wall’ installed on Clapton Common over the summer. Photograph: Fran Hales
At the beginning of 2020, as we emerged from winter, we slowly began to notice the news coverage of the eternally fruitless Brexit negotiations had given way to something else entirely.
Increasingly perplexed and anxious scientists and medics lined up to speak of an invisible assailant which was edging ever closer. This assailant, they said, was unconcerned with the niceties of queuing up at passport control or politely presenting itself at the Customs Office before leaving the airport. Its only intention was to find its way to our vital organs and to slowly destroy us from the inside until even a singular breath became an impossibility.
Clara Murray
Published:
8:00 PM December 16, 2020
Updated:
11:31 AM January 20, 2021
Notice of the now active injunction being posted to the Happy Man Tree.
- Credit: Friends of the Happy Man Tree
Campaigners fear Hackney’s beloved Happy Man Tree will be chopped down this week after legal action was taken to remove the protestors.
Berkeley Homes plans to fell a tree near The Happy Man pub as part of The Woodberry Down Estate regeneration, which will see more than 5,500 new homes, community facilities and public spaces built on the site.
The plans hit headlines this summer when protesters decided to occupy’ the tree and block the project.