Landmark fig trees, lining part of Laman Street in Newcastle’s arts and cultural precinct are to get the chop.
Save Our Figs campaigners have maintained a protracted campaign to keep the chainsaws away, but a final bid for a mediated resolution was quashed in a city council vote last night.
Council Officers insist the trees present a public safety and liability risk. Council has spent more than $600,000 on legal costs and consultants reports, so far, and last night voted against a further round of independent mediation.
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