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DAMAGE MIGHT BE CONTEMPT OF BAYSIDE COUNCIL
PLANNING PROCESS:
Beaumaris Anglican
Church has employed a firm that removed – on
Saturday, 01 August 2015 – a full truckload
of soil from near and around some of the
roots of one of 5 Coast Tea Trees on its
land. Those trees are protected under the

Bayside Planning Scheme.

IRRESPONSIBLE FAIT

ACCOMPLI:
The digging machine used, which appears in
the photograph below, has not only exposed
the tree roots, but has also broken some of
them off, as can also be seen in that
photograph. That damage could kill the tree
involved. The Church knows the 5 indigenous
trees are legally protected, as it applied
to Bayside City Council for

a Planning Permit to remove them.

A notice of a Planning

Permit Application on the land stated
that persons objecting to that removal had
14 days to object to the Council about the
proposal. Citizens’ right to object was
being pre-empted, and treated with disdain.
Google

street view shows the northernmost
tree before it lost a truckload of soil to
its north.

The Church has since withdrawn

its application, placed a similar
amount of soil on the bank where that
truckload was removed, and again demarcated
the edge of that sandy bank with basalt
rocks. The tea tree that was the one of
those 5 nearest the Church building was
later blown down by wind, and was removed,
with Council approval.