When a mature pohutukawa tree gets in your way on the Devonport peninsular this is what you do - you Chop it Down.
It’s
the tree in the middle of the attached photo. To make way for an
extension and a swimming pool. How crazy on Cheltenham beach. It lost it's
previous protection with the RMA changes.
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| Nov 5th The centre pohutukawa is the condemned tree |
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| Nov 16th. The pohutukawa was chopped down yesterday |
The planners report stated that the ‘The
removal of the pohutukawa will be mitigated by other planting’.
This
was reported in the Flagstaff and challenged by the Devonport Heritage people
Nov 3rd. The tree was chopped down on the 15th Nov ( yesterday) .
A
letter in the Flagstaff today by a Robert Weber suggests that the ‘Council
needs to have a serious rethink about the values it has and the duty to protect
in the interests of all of us’ He states that by law the council has to
weigh the benefits of development against the effect on natural resources.
