We've heard of the wrong type of leaves on the track - but now London Underground is targeting the wrong type of trees along the track in Woodford.

Bosses have given the chop to sycamore trees and saplings along the embankment between Woodford and Roding Valley as they say they cause "land slippage and leaf mitigation".

Instead they plan to introduce shrubs and "sturdier trees" such as hornbeam and oak along the edge of the Central Line trackside which once formed a green and pleasant screen for residents.

Councillor Morris Hickey said: "It's a concern not only as it completely ruins the environmental impact as far as residents are concerned, but also loses the habitat for wildlife."

"They've cut down almost all the trees along the embankment, completely destroyed them."

A London Underground spokeswoman said: "We've had to do it to stabilise the banks there to avoid any possibility of land slippage onto the track and leaf form mitigation.

"Sycamores grow very spindly. Come October we will be planting shrubs and sturdier trees."