00:00A Toby Carvery restaurant may be evicted from its North London site after partially felling an oak tree thought to be up to 500 years old.
00:11The stump of the oak tree, surrounded by fallen branches, was discovered by council workers last April in Whitewebs Park, Enfield.
00:19Enfield Council went as far as pushing the police to consider it an act of criminal damage after residents said they were devastated by the severed tree.
00:27Russell Miller, an ecology expert, said the tree could have lived another 100 years and described the felling as the worst example he has ever seen of inappropriate tree surgery.
00:39This comes after the illegal felling of the now infamous sycamore gap.
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