Furniture maker Bruce Saunders was stumped. He’d lived in London for more than 40 years, surrounded by parks, streets and leafy suburbs bursting with a rich mix of trees.
Why, then, did he have to travel 70 miles to find British-grown timber? And why was 90% of the hardwood sold in the UK imported?
“There are enough trees in London for it to be designated a forest,” says Saunders. “But the reality is, tree surgeons working in the city can’t afford to store the wood they’re felling: they have to slice it up for firewood or chip it for biomass.”
