Is this Brent's idea of going green?

Did you hear that English Heritage is using criminals to work out the age of some ancient trees.
It turns out many of our ancient manor houses which contain most of our large magnificent trees are now used as prisons by our Authorities.
As the Heritage would not ask their members to commit any crime to get onto the property, they are getting the inhabitants to hug-a-tree.
Calculating the length of the average prisoner from fingertip to fingertip, they can work out the age of the trees they hug.
Also, they need to know the type of tree because a four armed circumference of an oak would be many years more than the same measurement of a beech tree.
Obviously, the tending of these trees is a matter of pride for the local forestry commission, but not so for our council workers.
When our Borough woodsmen come around to hack at branches of our street trees, they seem to care more about not impeding the bus lanes than anything approaching aesthetic pruning.
These poor plants are turned into sterile balls of leaves on trunks which are often festooned with stringy suckers.
They are like some sort of giant vegetarian lollypops for a jumbo Kojac
Brent, apparently, is now trying to be more green, thus if you walk along many of our streets, like Grassmere Avenue or Thirlmere Gardens you can find plenty of greenery on their own land.
The pavement is strewn with hundreds of weeds which nobody in the parks group looks after - or bothers to dig up!