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Thread ID: 71701	2006-08-14 03:19:00	trees and chopping them down	jonp (7517)	PC World Chat

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478352	2006-08-14 03:19:00	bit from left field this one. I have a tree in my garden - a non native cedar - that I applied to the coucil for permission to have it removed. I liver on the shore. Its a little over 6m in height at a guess (whatever it was it was outside the size when you can chop without permission). I want to remove it to open up my section, allow more daylight into the property, and to allow planting of natives - i want to attract native birds into my garden you see. I also have about half a dozen other trees on my section that I have no intention of touching. The council finally got back to me and through their specalist aborist advisor they have told me that the tree is an important amenity to the local neighbourhood - cos i bet the boy racers love looking at my tree as they leave tyre marks on the road - and therefore removal would be detrimental to the area and my property !!! Therefore my question is (albeit a long winded one) has anybody had any dealings with NSCC on this type of thing and how did you bring the coucncil into line if you have ? After all I am looking to remove a non-native with natives - surely that can only be a plus ? The decision seems far too subjective to me.	jonp (7517)
478353	2006-08-14 03:56:00	A bit too late to suggest that you should've just done away with it before bringing it to council's attention! :D	Greg (193)
478354	2006-08-14 03:59:00	A bit too late to suggest that you should've just done away with it before bringing it to council's attention! :D yeah i thought about that at the time but you always get some old curtain twitcher with nothing better to do than grass you up on these things - people get very funny about trees	jonp (7517)
478355	2006-08-14 04:08:00	Of course there is always the "Makita borer" solution....	godfather (25)
478356	2006-08-14 05:19:00	Some years ago now my husband did work remving trees and pruning them for people. Had a call from a lady wanting a big old one removed as it was on the point of falling down. Waitakere Council wouldn't allow it and sent out an "aborist" who pronounced it fine - 3 weeks later it fell down crushing several cars in the street along with her fence and the power line. Poison it.	pctek (84)
478357	2006-08-14 05:46:00	People here have had similar situation. Seems strange that there are height restrictions on fences and buildings, but park/forest type trees are protected. Don't get me wrong, I love trees, but in the right places. See if you can have them "topped" maybe to just below the height where they start to be declared "off-limits"..if you get my drift. Cheers, Marnie	Marnie (4574)
478358	2006-08-14 07:24:00	I have a tree in my garden - a non native cedar - that I applied to the coucil for permission to have it removed. The council finally got back to me and through their specalist aborist advisor they have told me that the tree is an important amenity to the local neighbourhood - and therefore removal would be detrimental to the area and my property!!! AAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGG......................... ..... Our neighbour recently moved and some time before doing so, gave us permission to top (interpret that expression liberally) a spindly but 10+ metre Magnolia that is killing our winter morning sunshine, as a quid-pro-quo for my cutting down a 10+metre Camphor tree that was killing their winter afternoon sunshine. The Camphor was planted on our property by a previous neighbour who didn't bother to tell us that they grow to ginormous heights (and also killed our sun with the Magnolia). The Camphor tree was also likely to destroy both their driveway and our basement as its root structure was assuming the proportions of a giant squid. I felt quite guiltless demolishing the Camphor, because I didn't know I shouldn't, and I wish I had dealt to the Magnolia before reading this thread, but now I have the ta-taas about cutting it down. If Makita Borer should tragically strike the Magnolia, what should I use to fill the hole it makes in order to kill any more Makita Borer that might want to play with its roots? :xmouth: Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
478359	2006-08-14 07:24:00	See if you can have them "topped" maybe to just below the height where they start to be declared "off-limits" . . if you get my drift . i beleive (in west auckland) that you can take 20% off the height annually or something like that, so perhaps you could legally remove the tree in several years time . i'd just poison it/chop it down, and if anyone asks what happened say it wasnt you and someone else must've done it	motorbyclist (188)
478360	2006-08-14 07:35:00	If Makita Borer should tragically strike the Magnolia, what should I use to fill the hole it makes in order to kill any more Makita Borer that might want to play with its roots? :xmouth: Cheers Billy 8-{) Plain old Roundup (neat) will help "immunise" it, but Grazon or Tordon would be better...	godfather (25)
478361	2006-08-14 08:35:00	Just reading Gareth Morgan on his trip to the USA,was reminded of this bit.... Being motorcyclists the liberal motorcycle helmet laws were of course most pertinent to us. It’s not that you won’t wear one, it’s that you don’t have to – that’s worth an awful lot to a libertarian. The death toll for motorcyclists in the US is lower than it is here so do we know what we’re doing – apart from this awful Kiwi trait of wanting to control others’ lives?	Cicero (40)
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