Mmmm...now let me see...I thinks Ive got some photos here....and I'm specific here abt my own area ie 10mins from my house. Drive same distance to the west and its pristine Escarpment.
One other background point first though...We are under state govt directive for more land release....its still really Greater Sydney here, remember...and within commuting distance. Mind you it's 4hrs out of your day to do so.
Down here, its attractive (cheaper) land prices that make it worthwhile for young marrieds to live here...(less debt).
BTW... if you commute its 4+8-10=12-14 hrs per day hrs that are not available for anything..least of all gardening... I did it for 3 years...it sucks...
Heres the pics-
This area is 4-5 years old....nice eh...NOT.
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Not to be smart but is in my own LGA ...and its a titchy subject for me.
Most of these Lots are not big enough to support a tree of any kind (shrubs maybe).. But truly...and I have seen it... one residence with the rotary clothes line out the front because there was no room anywhere else.
This is what its WAS like ... but this will be resumed soon too
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Trapped in the middle is a this "Blackbutt Forest" which is largest area...south of Wollongong....it contains ROTAP's, and pockets of rainforest too.
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Every school holidays, the arsonists get into it....and at the edge it is subtly changed from forest into woodland with Themeda grassland, and Acacia scrub....(that happens in most of these areas that abut residential areas).
These areas (including the creeks) become kid magnets ....and with nails...a saw...a hammer... in one weekend they can do enough damage to a tree to kill it... One tree in a reserve behind me had kids swarming over it...putting a ladder up...oh..then needed to hack in toe holes..off comes the some bark ..geez...thats fun lets do some more...next thing...ringbarked...but this is not isolated...I speak with our Council guys who attest have to go in nearly every week and pull stuff out of trees...utes loads of stuff.
..and then there the pressure all this new residential development puts on natural systems..like creeks...Many of which feed in to the largest prawn hatchery lake in SOUTHERN NSW.
Lake Illawarra Authority
Oh....but man can play GOD and divert these creek to run "better" routes and change their hydrology to and turn them into engineered in-line filter systems with pondages for cleaning up storm-water where the bacteria and nitrogen and phosphates pour in from dog faeces and lawn fertilisers etc etc etc. and then ppl wonder why its not so nice to live near a creek with decaying algae and Parrots Feather and other aquatic weeds.
I'm out there cleaning up that mess......for free too (volunteering) I might add ..... because I care.
None of this is good planning...its Lego-land and its pigeon-holing..and IMO a pretty poor quality of life all up.
If you dont agree well so be it IMO.
