"Tea with Noddy involved navigating sixty feet of wobbly rope ladder running up the tree trunk and scrambling onto the porch of his penthouse home. The view and the tea were well worth the upward journey, though the descent was terrifying." For one year eco warriors held a camp on public parkland on the site of the former Crystal Palace, the highest point in south London, after approval was granted for a leisure complex with a twenty-screen multiplex and rooftop parking for a thousand cars: twelve acres of parkland would have been taken and two hundred trees felled. Local groups mounted legal challenges and campaigned to halt the plans.