School holidays is a great time for a tree tour of Sydney, and where better to start than the eastern suburbs? I saw canopies forming cathedral arches of trees all over the place when I went down there last week.
How alarmed, though, was I to see that Australia’s richest people are apparently risking their lives on a daily basis, walking, sitting and driving under dangerous fig trees. (more…)
Thanks to a friend for this photo.
The fence in the photo is looking the worse for wear because a great lump of tree trunk had just fallen against it.
Fortunately the geniuses tree team from Council had blocked off this path with a piece of tape – over an hour after they started work.
Women with prams had been using the walkway and treehuggers
locals had been standing on the path watching.
In fact a friend tells me she felt the tape was put up to keep treehuggers like her out not to keep the public safe. Hence the title of the post.
I wonder why this had to be done on a Saturday? The park’s busiest time, a weekend, and the Sabbath for the Seventh Day Adventist Church across the street.
If Council didn’t have a pathological need for secrecy they would have put a sign on the tree announcing why it was being removed – not just one of the ‘Trees working for you’ signs – and a link on its website to the arborist report on the tree.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there’d been a fauna expert present to ensure no wildlife would be injured?
At least one of the locals is under the impression that the whole row of figs is dangerous and will be felled.
Wonder what QRAP NCC has told her and who was responsible.
The usual suspects, I presume.
As they say- 30 000 trees coming to you: as mulch.
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NCC ‘leaked’ the ‘concept plans’ for Laman Street to the Herald. (more…)
I missed the beginning of the Council meeting tonight so apologies for holes in this flawed report, but the great thing about the meeting was the full gallery, the people holding signs, the calls of ‘ICAC’ and ‘Shame!‘ at appropriate moments. (more…)
days to the next Council elections.
Tonight’s Council meeting will discuss the *Review* of the Laman Street process. (more…)
More gobsmackingly bad outpourings from the ‘management’ team at Newcastle City Council made news today. (more…)
This was taken by Ben Smee at the time of the apparently 'practical' implementation of the resolution to remove the trees.
Vivien has asked, for a school assignment, why the Laman Street protesters were so angry.
I started to reply in a comment but there were so many reasons to be angry that I thought I’d try to sum it up here in a post. (more…)
Went to Laman Street today with friends – and of course met friends there by chance, as you do – and took some photos. Enjoy. (more…)
The General Manager spent thousands of ratepayer dollars today to put a full-page ad on page 24 of the Herald today to tell the community that everything’s OK – Council is ‘very comfortable’ with how stupid it looks its four – oh, no: not four – reports on Laman Street, and to tell residents ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy: protest respectfully; we vandals are Just Doing Our Job’. (more…)
Laman Street seen from Civic Park
Thanks to Laman Street campaigners who witnessed last night’s Council meeting for this media release: (more…)
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