Apparantly there is no way to influence demand for housing.
While Nigel Satterley and his weekend tours of his estates have a lot of the blame for the farce that is WA property development. Iβm glad this article highlighted the individuals attitude problem in regards trees.
So many people I know love to cut a tree down, and for the smallest reason. That its messy, in their way, blocks their view, theyβre sprinting for the chainsaws.
I spoke to someone who lives in Bushmead estate where the development has kept a fair amount of trees. And they were complaining about leaves on the road, and in their yard! As if thats a reasonable issue to warrant choppin the trees down. The leaves probably gather so much as a result of the small block big house regime creating brick corridors.
The housing design in WA is so wrong for our wider life. Good article!
Working as as urban arborist, I heard all the excuses. I wish I wrote every one down to some sort of daily blog cause 90% were ridiculous.
I left urban arboriculture 7 years ago and started 17 years ago. Trust me when I say that there were so many people screaming for an urban forest and were sidelined by developers and other politics. I really wish heads would roll, they were so fucking wrong then and canβt admit it now. I rage quit because the stress of wanting to do the right, scientific thing was ignored for fucking idiots making god awful decisions instead. No one will suffer the consequences of their actions. Hot enough for ya?
Can you remember maybe one of the nore ridiculous excuses? for the giggles.
βI was out walking my four-legged son and an insect fell on me. The trees need to be removed.β
