5/12/21
Alderman Simon Behrakis is to be congratulated for his move to review the bizarre ‘tree policy’; at
Monday’s Hobart City Council’s meeting.
But he will need lots of luck and support to achieve anything significant in rolling back the sheer
volume of red and green tape this Green dominated council has inflicted upon us over recent years.
The formula used by Council staff to arrive at a $60,000 penalty for the removal of this large forest
tree is at odds with any true consideration of the safety and welfare of the future human inhabitants
of the dwelling being commissioned on that site.
Even very healthy specimens of the Tasmanian Blue Gum (Eucalyptus Globulus) have been known to
shed a massive limb unexpectedly and as they hold their bark litter up in the air and with their huge
sickle shaped leaves and large numbers of ‘gum nut’; seed pods they simply explode during a hot
bushfire attack and pose an unacceptable risk to human life in such close proximity to dwellings.
They are beautiful forest trees and should be protected as such, but the beauty of human life should
also be protected.
Rick Cazaly. Lenah Valley.