If we don’t water our local street tree during dry weather, particularly the young ones, some of them will die. This tree, on the corner of Addiscombe Court Road & Leslie Park Road, is clearly suffering.

Croydon Council no longer replaces street trees that die and we already have 65 empty street pits in the ECCO area. Our neighbourhood will be hotter during heat waves if we lose more trees.

The map below was published on the BBC website in the summer of 2022. The ECCO area is in the centre, the north part of Lebanon Road outlined in white.