These trees were
sclerophyll forest and remain after development.
It's also the same property where I felled this tree.
Felling dodgey big ironbark | solo felling.
After developers clear native forest they leave a few trees. Many of the trees in these situations never look good as single specimens. The forest in it's entirety has beauty and trees are sheltered in large groups. The density tends to hide the defects. Now what we have is large, damaged and somewhat isolated fringe trees.
The environment is now more hostile, less insulation from the elements, more competition from turf, hard surfaces like concrete, water table changes, rhizosphere changes etc etc ... trees often commence their decline and become more prone to storm damage.
Nature cared for and pruned in it's own way the forest, however now debri, leaf litter and like is all vacuumed up with every lawn mow, and heaven forbid we wont tolerate mother nature pruning her urban forest with such recklessness and poor cutting.
These trees would rarely if ever be planted by anyone in an urban setting, they are most inappropriate and much better selections are out there.
As I stood on this guys property with him he started to see many issues with many trees. Once his eye was trained by me he got a little excited ... what about these over here, look at that etc etc ... I told him to stop looking or there'd be none left. You look at them from a location perspective first, can they do damage if they fail? Then decide your works.
Developers should leave groups of trees, far enough away from targets to not be a problem, and leave the area around them alone.