Road-widening scheme threatens Wisley Gardens

A garden which attracts more than a million visitors a year is under threat from a road-widening scheme.

Plans to widen the A3 in Surrey as part of improvements to junction 10 of the M25 include options that would be a huge "garden grab" on Grade II* listed RHS Wisley Gardens, the Royal Horticultural Society has warned.

The garden could lose 10,000 square metres of woodland and 500 trees including one planted by the Queen to mark her silver jubilee if one of the options being considered by Highways England goes ahead, it warned.

RHS ambassador Alan Titchmarsh said: