Pictures and video show the huge turnout for a march protesting against plans to axe a poplar tree to make way for a 160-home development.
Around 280 people took part in the march on Saturday, organised by campaign group the Poplar Front, to make their feelings clear to developers Hyde Housing and Adur District Council about plans to fell the tree in Brighton Road, Shoreham, to make way for a new 160-home development.
Drums were played, signs were held aloft, and people chanted “save our tree, leave her be”.
Passers-by along the route also added their support by honking their car horns.
Starting at the Shoreham Centre, the protestors walked along St Mary's Road and onto the A259 Brighton Road to the tree, where there was live music and people signed the group’s petition, which has so far garnered more than 3,000 signatures.
Hyde Housing previously said it understood the strength of feeling about felling the tree and said it is planting 20 semi-mature trees in the new development.
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