City of Stirling -- Perth's biggest council -- is worried about loss of trees. What ?!
"Infill to rob Perth of 20ha in tree canopy", The West, 10 Dec15
So what do they expect ?! Allow larger houses on smaller blocks and of course the backyard trees will disappear. Our housing infill policies are fully intended to encourage the replacement of backyard space with brick and concrete and tile housing.
The state government wants Perth to become solid housing estate. And city of Stirling has only just noticed the effect on space for trees ?
I fully support their concern. I appreciate the council's tree planting in public spaces. Why is it only today that this is considered to be "news" ?
Could it be because of the visiting "expert" who recently commented that tree cover is important ? Again, the importance of tree cover is hardly "news". I guess the comments were reported because it was from a new -- in Perth -- " expert ".
Perhaps the reporter then tried a follow-up article, on the tree planting response of local councils. And received the obvious, exasperated response...
Well, with the government pushing for more and more buildings, what the hell do you think we can actually do ?!
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