Tree Management
Good planning, species selection and appropriate maintenance are vital for safe and manageable street, roadside and other trees that will provide aesthetic, physical, environmental and ecological benefits to the community.
It is Council’s role to manage these trees in a safe, effective and efficient manner to provide maximum aesthetic, physical and psychological benefits to the community. Modern arboriculture is a new and evolving science that is poorly understood by most people. This often results in unrealistic expectations with regard to tree management.
The combination of poor general understanding of modern arboriculture and the emotional entanglements that come with large, long living things such as trees can result in emotive situations. Council’s objective is to provide reasonable and consistent guidelines to defuse these situations. Accordingly, this protocol provides a framework for the management and maintenance of the Shire’s street roadside and other trees that will deliver positive outcomes in a fair and consistent manner for our community.
Council currently has a number of policy and planning instruments that provide for various elements in regards to the management of trees. This protocol will bring these elements together into the one document and complement them with additional information to provide a coherent guide to how Council will manage its tree populations.
 Tree Management Protocol (2,696kb)
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