It saddens me to watch the remorseless ungreening of my borough.

Barely a week goes by without another front garden ripped out and paved over for off-road parking. The loss of trees, shrubs and lawn not only leeches our communal oxygen supply and aggravates flood risk, it’s also depriving us of natural beauty to the point where many properties, with their sterilised forecourts, resemble funeral parlours.

If people must have their own private car parks, could they consider retaining a proportion of soil and retain a precious tree, a pretty shrub, a display of daffodils? In the end, it’s everybody’s community, everyone’s world.

Jonathan Kebbe

Crescent Road, Barnet