VIDEOS
Film maker Jo Syz and independent news group Real Media have made several short films about our direct actions, interviews and poetic homages to trees in Haringey. The recordings below also feature deputations (3min presentations) to Haringey council which are also important for raising awareness of local issues.
Please check out our You Tube page to see all our films.
Association of British Insurers protest
The Haringey Tree Protectors held a protest outside the Association of British Insurers, to highlight the impact that home insurers have on mature trees.
The Barrister Paul Powlesland and Gio Iozzi speak about how insurance companies negatively impact our mature tree stock, which we vitally need to fight our changing climate.
Oakfield Road update
The Oakfield Road plane tree was back in the news, when in November 2023, Haringey Council once again stated that they were going to fell the 120 year plane tree after pressure from the Insurers.
Gio Iozzi explains the current situation.
Sky News
Sky news interviewed Giovanna Iozzi, one of the founders of the Haringey Tree Protectors.
Tree deputation - Haringey Council
Tree deputation to Haringey Council, July 2023
Catherine West, MP speech to Parliament
Catherine West, MP.
Adjournment debate - The protection of mature trees. May/June 2023
Oakfield Road - Real Media
Real Media’s film about the decision day of the injunction that ultimately delayed its imminent felling by Haringey Council earlier in 2023.
Mourning the Hairy Oak
A film of the mourning ceremony of the Red Rebels, before the felling of the popular Hairy Oak on the Parkland Walk. (2023)
Townsend Yard, Highgate, 2022
Violence and disorder at Townsend Yard in a bid to protect the trees, 2022. Mead group and security teams intimidate some of our campaigners trying to protect trees.
Lime trees at Townsend Yard, 2022
Jane Hill lives in Shepherd’s Cottage, right next to the development in Highgate at Townsend Yard. Several trees were lost, but two lime trees which provide a buffer between her and the development were saved.
Chris Packham supports HTP protest.
Chris Packham released a video in support of HTP for their protest at McDonald’s Green Lanes in August 2022, after they felled 11 mature trees and replaced them with plastic grass.
McDonald’s fellings - Real Media
Real Media’s film covering the the protests at McDonald’s, Green Lanes about their felling of 11 mature lime trees.
Allianz Building, City of London, 2022
Insurer Allianz made £12billion profit in 2023
The Oakfield Plane is at the centre of two long running claims by insurers, Allianz and Aviva. The insurance industry habitually blames trees in damage to houses - at the moment in law a tree only has to be implicated in a case to be felled. Simply put, since the 1970s, billionaire pound profit insurance companies have gradually established enough case precedents in law (civil or so-called 'tort' law) so they can avoid paying to underpin houses in subsidence claims. Insurers, using their own unchallenged arboricultural reports, have engineered a situation where they can pass costs for underpinning onto councils rather than paying for the work themselves - councils who usually can't or won't pay.
Climbing the Oakfield plane, 2022
One of our regular climbers Lucy on the delights of climbing the plane tree and other trees on our city streets. There are 18 claims on this road and 15 on an adjacent road against trees, any of which could become more acute and threaten the trees’ lives. There are at least 200 claims against trees in Haringey as of last year, it could be double that by now.
Oakfield Road Plane Tree, N4
The Oakfield Road 120-year-old Plane tree became the centre of a national media storm in March 2023 when it was swooped on by 24-hour security guards, entombed in white tarp and covered in scaffolding for a week. It cost the council £92,000.