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Sean Freeman · 17th January 2008, 03:00 AM

I'd be asking council for records of the VMP's for those trees when the development was put in...there would have to be some.

Problem is no matter how good your consultant is and the VMP they write once the development begins who is to police it?
Sure you could go round and keep an eye on things...if you lived nextdoor! but trying to do that with 100 sites spread from Nerang to Mogill!!!!! No chance. So we rely on the developer and council to implement the recommendations and track the works...frankly it doesn't work out for the trees at all.

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Sean Freeman PDF King & Arborist Extrodinaire Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland Posts: 1,699	Re: Tree Protection on Development Sites, are there any Australian Standards? I'd be asking council for records of the VMP's for those trees when the development was put in...there would have to be some. Problem is no matter how good your consultant is and the VMP they write once the development begins who is to police it? Sure you could go round and keep an eye on things...if you lived nextdoor! but trying to do that with 100 sites spread from Nerang to Mogill!!!!! No chance. So we rely on the developer and council to implement the recommendations and track the works...frankly it doesn't work out for the trees at all. __________________ Sean Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. - Kahlil Gibran