304-306 Birrell Street Bondi NSW 2026

Remove one (1) Eucalypt from the neighbouring boundary wall. This tree is unsuitable & unsustainable in its location. There is insufficient space for it to flourish and mature in good health and vigour. It is starting to push over the boundary wall, as the tree grows the damage will worsen. Remove one (1) Camphor Laurel on Birrell Street, remove one (1) Pine from Watson Street entrance. The removal of the Conifer sp. (Pine Tree) and the Cinnamomum camphora (Camphor Laurel) has been refused due to insufficient information. It was assessed that there are no horticultural / arboricultural reasons to remove these trees.

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K Watson commented over 3 years ago

These trees should only be removed if they pose a danger. They look to be mature, with at least 20 years of growth.

When the state has lost such a huge number of animals and trees in the bushfires, removing large trees in NSW, even if they are exotic, seems anachronistic. We are at an ecological tipping point following the bushfires.

Our wildlife has been forced to utilise the exotic vegetation with which we have replaced the native species, and now to remove the exotic trees as well is not kind. It would be better if the tree could remain and an alternative solution for the property owner's building plans could be found.

At the very least it would be best to keep the tree during bird nesting season which ends after February, as many bird species have sought refuge in the city while the burnt forests recover.. They have lost their normal nesting sites and food. 80% of the Shoalhaven, south of Sydney was burnt out including 90% of its national parks.

The Shoalhaven has lost 72% of its terrestrial animals and the bird loss has not yet been calculated. The percentage loss in other parts of the state from the recent fires, and from the drought, is not available, but is huge.

Our surviving wildlife is in extremis and we need to include this in consideration of any tree removal.

And apart from the fauna loss, there is a huge percentage of tree loss, which means there are less trees to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, so the speed of the onset of climate change is increased. If we don't want our planet to turn into a hard brown rock like our sister planet Venus, which was a blue and green planet before it overheated, then we must start being serious in all that we do to slow climate change.

Any trees, especially mature ones, should be retained now unless they pose a danger.

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