At a time when more and more open, green spaces in the city are being swallowed up in the name of ‘development’, Sunday morning saw a large group of south Mumbai residents gather to protest a similar threat to Malabar Hill’s Kamala Nehru Park, where at least 70 trees face the axe for the proposal to convert Chiranji Loyalka Marg or the Siri Road Walkway into a motorable road.

Locals said the plan would deprive the prime area of its green cover and also affect the amphitheatre and children’s playground at Kamala Nehru Park.