But a few green-thumbed neighbours living on King Street are working to improve King Street one flower bed at a time.

Wild King Street, which started in 2022, is a group of gardeners who are encouraging people in the area to welcome wildlife back into the city.

Members of Wild King Street from left to right: Penny Cheung, Geoffrey Brown and Stephanie Northen (Image: Newsquest) READ MORE: Plant shop celebrates first year in city with free giveaway

Since its formation, members of the group have been planting a wide variety of flowers outside their homes to welcome bees, birds and other insects to the area.

But the group's mission appears to have been bamboozled by developers who sent contractors out this week to clear shrubs, which were growing over hoarding at an unused site on the street.

Orbit Homes, which owns the site, said it cleared the plants after it received reports from customers and neighbours about the overgrown shrubs, which had become a safety concern.

One of the contractors leaving the site with cut shrubs (Image: Newsquest) Stephanie Northen, 63, who lives on the road, said: "Wild King Street is about increasing biodiversity.........

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