London's been a very green city for decades, if not a hundred years, because of planting done when victoirian development started. If anything, the last years s

London's been a very green city for decades, if not a hundred years, because of planting done when victoirian development started. If anything, the last years seem to have had a reduction in tree cover, to fit in all of these new developements. The saplings carelessly planted in their place will take decades to reach maturation.