§ Baroness Jegerasked Her Majesty's Government:
Why, and on whose authority, an avenue of hornbeams and other healthy saplings has been destroyed in Regent's Park.
The Earl of CaithnessThe bailiff of the Royal Parks recently decided that an avenue of hornbeams should be removed from Regent's Park. Nash's original landscape design for the park did not include this avenue, which was planted about 15 years ago,570WA and had no regard for Nash's grand design. A recent independent consultants' report recommended that the avenue be removed. The bailiff decided to do so while the trees were still young enough to be replanted elsewhere in the park. No trees have been destroyed, and the historic landscape is being restored.