St Catherines Girls School 26 Albion Street Waverley NSW 2024

There are two separate applications to remove four trees. Does this mean 8 trees in total to be removed? Footpath trees belong to everyone. Are they on public or private land? No documentation on the website makes this difficult to comment on. Will they be replaced?

Trees clean and filter our air, provide habitat and food for fauna and act as acoustic barriers. I am very tired of stating this over and over again. If these trees are not diseased, they should remain intact.

Why should the school be allowed to remove trees on public land? Has there been a radical change in Waverley Council's policy on retention of mature trees? In the last 6-9 months there seems to have been a significant increase in the number of tree removal applications. Sometimes for multiple trees. Sometimes trees can be inconvenient because of leaf/flower/twig litter , or because they make it difficult to do what property owners want in their development frenzy. But the benefits for everyone far outweigh the negatives for a few. Waverley Council should examine its current criteria for approving tree removals and determine if they are consistent with their oft-stated position on the importance of tree retention. In this case the school does not own the trees, and they should be retained.

So we lose 8 trees altogether from public land. Time for St Catherines to stop taking over the neighbourhood for their own limited interests...

The removal of these trees should not be allowed. The trees are there for all to enjoy. They provide beautification, shade and natural habitat. Our local area needs more trees not less.

A rather sad proposal really; the public loses the benefits of mature trees but it is not clear to me why this should be needful. On the surface of this case, St. Catherine's School appears to be heedless of a community responsibility.

It is possible that the removal of these trees is to make it easier for the building contractors when they start work on the schools planned expansion and, if that is true,is consistent with the schools attitude to the neighborhood.

Another example of St Catherine's school's disregard for the community and the common good. A breeding ground for selfishness. Trees should stay.

I strongly object to the removal of these trees. The removal of so many local trees is impacting upon local fauna who rely upon these native trees as their corridors and safe spaces.
Tree removal is Waverely is now causing possums around Queens Park to begin eating species of trees that they haven't ever touched previously - such as tibouchina and Morea. As a consequence they all have liquid droppings which splatter on cars & pavements.

Can Council please have some investigation into why possums are suffering the need to eat what makes them sick?

In the past DA when St Catherine increased in size, a large fig tree was cut down....and now they request again more cutting down of our trees. We strongly object to the removal of these trees. We should encouraging more planting of trees, not cutting down of existing trees.
In the street we live, Council has repeatedly promised to plant a tree! at least, and nothing has eventuated.

The lack of transparent documentation available from council makes it hard to evaluate the justification for this, however I strongly object to the removal of public planting which is the for the amenity of all, for the benefit of a few.

St Catherine's school gives very little back to the community except for traffic and parking congestion, why should it be able to remove publicly funded trees ?

St Catherine's school has put in more than one TPO per year over the last 10 years. As a significant footprint in the local community they need to lead by example on their land, AND reduce their environmental footprint to the surrounding areas.

I object to the removal of these trees. We cannot afford to loose any more mature trees These trees are for the public to enjoy and for our wildlife to thrive in.

I cannot see any reason why these trees are to be removed and I would be deeply upset if Waverley Council considered this application to go ahead.

This is not the future we envisage.