Contractors will start felling Newcastle’s iconic Laman Street figs on Monday, after councillors stood by a decision to remove them.
A recission motion to keep the figs was defeated at an extraordinary meeting last night, as was a proposal to resolve the saga via a third party.
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Can anyone tell me how NCC officers can get away with using fictitious figures to create a hysteria over inflated risks to pedestrians then remove the trees under the traffic act?geez you think you would be safer in a car! Staff should be sacked. Oh & you think these inflated risk & cost figures hard to swallow. Wait & see how much the 14 tree removal will cost, rumoured to be between $1.2 &1.7 million. Thats not including replanting, piazza paving & the whole Laman st redevelopment they have planned. How can blow in staff have so much power over our cities civic space.? BTW i thought i heard assurances in the Land & Enviro Court last year from NCC’s expensive Senior Counsel that NCC had no intention of chasing roots in Civic Park. Good luck with your redevelopment plans & building your vaults and fixing infrastructure, without touching CIVIC PARK!
Council administration 101: do you have some trees that are in the way of a development? Decide they’re a traffic hazard and use the Roads Act to get rid of them. You may have to spend $500 000 more than elected Councillors agreed, but that’s what it takes if the community are unconvinced about your risk claims. And even though the Roads Act would allow you as an administrator to take the trees out without asking elected Councillors, why don’t you make them carry the can? After all, most of them won’t question it.
there’s huge carbon credits in them there trees.
So with all the detail reports Cr Cook claimed had been done, i cant seem to find one that tells me how the displaced fauna will be managed. It needs to be remebered that these specific group of trees contain several threatened species. Has the departments threatened species unit been involved or even notified? Is it true that the NCC simply expect that these displaced fauna will take up residence in surrounding neighbourhood trees? Does that include local back yard fruit trees with domestic pets? Im sure that will be popular.
Is NBN aware of this you tube video re Anzac memorial & Laman St trees?
http://youtu.be/CM6e6OSPvFk
I seem to recall Council in the Land & Enviro court giving assurances that they would not be chasing roots into Civic Park. Good luck with your levelling of Laman st & the park for your big Piazza plans without removing roots on half the trees.
Question – what is the oldest living thing on earth? Answer – tree…
How old are these figs? I find it sad that your council is felling them.. How many people are killed by trees every year? A risk you say, total nonsense… swimming pools kill more people so maybe you start ripping up all the pools in your shire….
Is that true that the quote for removing the 14 Fig Trees is $1.2 to $1.7 MILLION? Should rent the bloody trees out to the Coal industry to offsett some carbon!
I think il be at greater risk from heat stroke & or a melanoma come Anzac Day this year, without my beloved trees gone. These Trees offer such respite with the nearby fountain spray , cool green foliage to shade & cool me.