7 April 2025
CR/116 OUT25/5F0CFE25
Your Input is Sought on Council’s Draft Tree Management Plan, Including the Removal of Pin Oak Trees & Your Preferred Replacement Street Trees
Your Council highly values our natural and urban environments, including our street trees that provide shade, foliage, colour and ambience to our beautiful town of Tenterfield. However, Council has a legal and moral obligation to manage our street trees in a responsible manner so that these assets do not become a liability to our community by falling over onto power lines, houses, cars or people.
Council has adopted a Draft Tree Management Plan at its recent March Meeting and is now seeking public submissions on this Draft Plan. Council also seeks input from the community regarding the preferred tree species that will be used as replacement trees for the Pin Oak trees in Logan, Clarence and Cowper Streets that are currently affecting overhead power lines and others that have or are about to reach their safe and useful life - based on an independent assessment report from a qualified arborist.
In addition, it is important to note that the removal and replacement of street trees will be dependent on Councils’ financial ability to undertake these actions. However, Council is committed to keep our community safe, but also to continue to beautify our town.
In this notice to the community, and especially those impacted residents living on Logan, Clarence and Cowper Streets, Council is also requesting your feedback on the following aspects:
1. Removing trees from both sides of the road, for replanting with your preference of a tree species listed below to form a new avenue of trees. 2. The removal of Pin Oak trees only where there are existing power lines, but for the Pin Oak trees on the other side of the street to remain and to be replaced by Pin Oak trees again into the future where trees become old and unsafe – acknowledging that the Pin Oak trees under the power lines will be replaced by your preference of a tree species listed below. 3. Your preference of a suitable replacement street tree from the list below.
The following six tree species are deemed suitable to be planted under power lines (please see the attachment for photos):• Crepe Myrtle • Maple (Suitable variety) • Chinese Pistachio • Manchurian Pear • Ornamental Plum/Pear • Prunus Cerasifera Nigra
Should you wish to provide a submission on the Draft Tree Management Plan and/or your choice of the preferred replacement tree species and/or for only one side of the Pin Oak trees to be removed and to be replaced by Pin Oak trees again, please send your submission by email to Council at council@tenterfield.nsw.gov.au or by mail to the address provided at the footer of this page before or by close of business on Friday, 9 May 2025. Kindly indicate only a single tree species out of the listed six as your preferred replacement street tree. The Draft Tree Management Plan may be physically inspected at Council’s Office, 247 Rouse Street, Tenterfield during normal working hours, Monday to Friday, between 9am and 4pm, and at the Tenterfield Public Library, 135 Manners Street, Tenterfield, Monday to Friday between 10am and 5pm, and online on Councils website at www.tenterfield.nsw.gov.au Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact Council’s Open Spaces Regulatory & Utilities Manager, Mr Mark Cooper, on the telephone number quoted below. Hein Basson General ManagerAll correspondence should be addressed to: General Manager Tenterfield Shire Council 247 Rouse Street (PO Box 214) TENTERFIELD NSW 2372 Telephone: (02) 6736 6000 email: council@tenterfield.nsw.gov.au website: www.tenterfield.nsw.gov.au
