Pruning will get underway tomorrow on 18 protected Pohutukawa trees along Turret Road that are posing a risk to traffic.
Tauranga City Council arborists will begin pruning on the limbs of the trees that have grown to a point they are encroaching on the red zone.
Pohutukawa trees on Turret Road will be pruned this week.
TCC reports none of the trees need to be completely removed but they do need to be pruned back above the legal height of 4.25m.
The pruning work will be undertaken from Thursday and is not expected to put the trees at long term risk.
A regular maintenance inspection has alerted Council to this situation. The pruning is being undertaken as emergency works.
Council says Pohutukawa limbs can have a habit of dropping over a period of weeks without failing completely. All street trees are inspected every six months so this subsidence has happened since the last inspection.
2 comments
PROBLEMATIC
Posted on 05-12-2012 11:06 | By YOGI
Like trees grow and will always be a problem if to close to teh roads, buildings, houses and power lines. That also goes as far as services underground to. I don't know how TCC is going to cope with a four lane road through there when it gets built, gunna be a problem for sure ...
YOGI
Posted on 05-12-2012 18:12 | By Sambo
you should know by now, you develop the land, then 20 years later try and figure out how you are going to get the residents anywhere, develop the new roads we have as a "ring road" most traffic gets into town via the toll road, do not waste money now attempting to funnel traffic along Turret Road, too expensive, and its never going to work, leave the bloody trees and spend rate payers money on something that may benefit us.
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