Tuesday, 9 September 2008
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In order to retain the many benefits that come with having trees, Council has enacted the Tree & Bushland Preservation Order. For clarification of the below, please read the following:
Alternately you can contact Council’s Help & Service Centre.
The objectives of this order are:
- To minimise unnecessary damage to, or removal of, trees and bushland.
- To conserve trees and bushland that have ecological, historical, aesthetic, botanic and cultural significance
- To encourage long-sighted tree planting, and the planting of local native species where appropriate -
Indigenous Plant Species List - To facilitate the removal of noxious weeds, undesirable trees and inappropriate plantings
- To keep the current amount of tree cover or more in Willoughby.
What is protected?
1. All trees with the following dimensions:
- Higher than 4 metres, or
- A trunk circumference of more than 600 millimetres when measured 1.2 metres above ground level, or
- A crown spread exceeding 3 metres.
2. All trees, regardless of dimensions, which are listed as rare, threatened, a component of a Threatened Ecological Community or a Critical Habitat.
3. All trees, regardless of dimensions, listed as items on the Willoughby Natural Heritage Register.
4. All locally occurring native vegetation in Bushland.
What is exempted?
1. The pruning or removal of dead trees.
2. Trees on properties zoned Residential 2(a) only can selectively prune up to a total of 33% of an individual’s crown over a 5 year period. The pruning must comply with Australian Standard AS 4373-1996: Pruning of amenity trees, and shall consist of the following pruning classes only:
- General pruning
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- Crown thinning
- Deadwooding
- Selective pruning
- Formative pruning
- Reduction pruning
- Crown lifting
- Pollarding
- Remedial pruning
- Powerline clearance