Part of this Burlington, Ont., golf course is becoming housing cutting down 425 trees in the process [Video]

Nicky Marwaha says she was shocked last Thursday when she came home to find her neighbourhood had changed.

Several tall trees on the normally lush golf course her backyard borders were gone — they’d been cut down to make way for a housing development that will see 90 single-detached homes and a six-storey apartment built in the area. 

Across the privately owned Millcroft Golf Club course on May 1, in total 425 trees were cut down, drawing outrage from neighbours, some of whom have been frustrated with the development for the past several years. 

“It’s a massacre,” Marwaha said.

The doctor and mother of three moved to the neighbourhood 13 years ago, she said. The biggest draw for her was a beautiful green backyard. 

“It’s like you have a paradise that’s …