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Tuesday <strong>January</strong> 2 <strong>2018</strong><br />
Your Local Views<br />
COMMUNITY NEWS<br />
Readers respond to the<br />
article regarding two<br />
large trees in the former<br />
Redcliffs School grounds<br />
that may be cut down after<br />
the city council declined<br />
to give them protected<br />
status<br />
Jan Simpson – We strongly<br />
believe that the two lovely old<br />
trees in the original Redcliffs<br />
School grounds should be given<br />
protected status. I do not know<br />
the criteria for protection of<br />
worthwhile trees but on our<br />
property on Beachville Rd we<br />
have inherited a protected tree<br />
which we have tried to have<br />
removed from the list. It is a<br />
nonsense – an old, unhealthy,<br />
ngaio tree with unsightly dead<br />
branches. Ngaios are poisonous<br />
weeds and a tree such as this,<br />
very close to our house should<br />
not be protected, unlike the two<br />
lovely old trees in the former<br />
Redcliffs School. Playgrounds<br />
benefit from trees like these.<br />
Retain them please.<br />
Bobby Phuong – I believe<br />
the trees should be given protected<br />
status. They have been<br />
there for so long and are part<br />
of the land now, not to mention<br />
beautiful. If there are configurations<br />
that allow the trees to be<br />
retained then there’s no reason at<br />
all for their removal.<br />
Dan Salisbury – Please<br />
LANDSCAPE: An oak tree at the former Redcliffs School may be chopped down when the city council develops playing<br />
fields on the site. While Avondale’s Maree Ross says she wants the overgrown mess on the property next to her home<br />
cleared.<br />
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER<br />
keep the oak and elm on the old<br />
Redcliffs School site. It sounds<br />
like they can be accommodated<br />
into any new plans. The trees add<br />
so much.<br />
Readers also respond<br />
to the update about<br />
the overgrown section<br />
in Avondale<br />
Helen Young – Make a<br />
complaint to the city council to it<br />
being a fire risk. I did that when<br />
the neighbours had grass up to<br />
the top of the fence 2m high.<br />
They were made to cut it down<br />
and keep it to a low height as<br />
a fire risk. It’s worth a try even<br />
if it is the city council with the<br />
problem.<br />
Daniel Leadley – Why<br />
should the city council be<br />
expected to look after a privatelyowned<br />
section? I cut the berm<br />
down for this lady about<br />
two years ago the site was bad<br />
then hate to think how bad it is<br />
now.<br />
Karen Bullock – Typical.<br />
The city council doesn’t want to<br />
help.<br />
Nicky Kidd – The city<br />
council will end up getting<br />
someone in to do it and<br />
send them a bill. The section<br />
owners are lazy. Grow up and<br />
take responsibility of your<br />
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