As we all know the local council in your area try and control many if not all the proceedings and developments in your area. In some cases this is good as it stops that strange new couple building a monster 4 story house in a suburban middle class street. However they also prevent local kids build bicycle jumps and demolish ALL potentially unsafe obstacles and hazards. Worse still is how they manage to get into the ears of everyday people and transform them into their own personal informants to dob in any and all indiscretions!
Well as juicy as many of these topics would be I’m just here to talk about the councils 'Quick-Fix' attitude when it comes to dealing with local streetscapes, parks, new developments and public open spaces (i.e. skate parks, BBQ areas, sports ovals...).
So as a beautiful example of a council’s inability to look at the bigger picture and just see the quick buck at the end of the tunnel I present the front of my house and street. My entire street has a variety of Eucalyptus trees planted along the road verge. About 6 months ago the council came around and lopped of all the low lying branches to keep the public safe. This is all fine in theory however when at 7am I’m woken up by the murder of all the trees outside it becomes not fine. The council had come through and in a wave of destruction cut through the low lying branches so close the trunk of the trees that it could not heal itself. Instead it bled to death over man months due to the deep 'V' shaped cuts in all the trunks that penetrated past all levels of the cambium layer. In the end it was all too much and the trees have all died now leaving us to replace them.
I ask is that the council doing their part to keep the community safe? Or are they simply too lazy to hire a qualified arborist to do the job correctly? The answer to that question is both simple and obvious but seems to evade the eyes of the council. Unprofessional practices such as this go on all the time and I imagen not only to one street in one suburb.
Savior or Slayer...well I say slayers with the 'Quick-Fix' in mind and a fast buck to get us complaining citizens off their back and the prevent law suit.
Well that's my opinion.
Next post will have pictures and discuss what can be done to prevent such atrocities.
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