A front page report in this paper detailed how residents of two housing societies in Bandra's Pali Naka area are seeing red over the 'reduction' of a green plot in their shared premises. While White Orchid society alleges Kakad society has reduced the garden area to turn it into a parking space and closed off their common entry gate, the latter has rubbished the allegations, claiming the matter is 'sub judice'.

While both sides have had their say in the report, we are only concerned about the larger picture that a green plot has somehow slipped away in the deadlock between both societies. Every stakeholder of the city has to do their utmost to preserve green spaces. The same goes for open plots. We have often seen these spaces locked on some pretext or the other, or encroached upon, so that people are unable to access them.