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=== UK === * In December 1993, an important moment in the campaign against the M11 link road in London was the occupation of [[M11 link road protest#The chestnut tree on George Green|The chestnut tree on George Green]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harry Cohen |date=11 March 1994 |title=M11 Link Road |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1994/mar/11/m11-link-road |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227175001/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1994/mar/11/m11-link-road |archive-date=27 December 2012 |access-date=18 December 2012 |website=[[Hansard]] of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]}}</ref> * "During the 1994β1995 campaign against construction of the M65 the UK's first tree village, including more than 40 treehouses, was built in the upper canopy of forest in Stamworth valley.<ref name=":2" /> * Protestors took to the trees to resist the building of the [[Newbury bypass#Protests|Newbury bypass]] in England in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 January 2004 |title=BBC On This Day - 1996: Green groups join bypass battle |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/18/newsid_2530000/2530307.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506223316/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/18/newsid_2530000/2530307.stm |archive-date=6 May 2019 |access-date=13 May 2019}}</ref> * In May 2006, protesters at [[Titnore Wood]] began a tree-sitting campaign against a major urban extension to the town of [[Worthing]] in West Sussex. Around 25 protesters created tree-houses and a network of tunnels. In March 2010, after nearly four years of tree-sitting, the local council voted unanimously to turn down the application for development.<ref name="BBC-plans rejected">{{Cite news |date=16 March 2010 |title=Plans for homes next to Worthing's Titnore Woods voted down |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8570425.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230211131340/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/8570425.stm |archive-date=11 February 2023 |access-date=17 March 2010 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref>
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