What cheeses me off

[MARTINE]

We're in semi rural Mornington Peninsula. We had a declining Mahongany gum in the front and on the side a very big lemon scented gum. Could only get permission to trim, until a fierce storm brought half the mahogany through our bedroom. Council permission to remove. A week late a huge limb off the other took out side gate, fence, and a couple of large shrubs - I'd been gardening around it about an hour before . Council arborist was reluctant as the lemon scented was his favourite! . $5,000 later they were. both removed, but he said we had to plant 2 gums to replace, with mature height to 30 feet. That ain't happening. He told me they do aerial mapping to check whether tree canopies have been removed.

Tell us about it.
Investment property I own has a massive gum in garden planted 50 years prior. Our OC wants to remove it as dropping massive limbs into neighbor’s property. Neighbors not happy. Have spend years applying to local council. We have paid for arborist reports. Agree with us
(Council) Computer says no.
We have written to our insurer with all these denials and sent letter to council stating they will be liable as we cannot do anymore. This has also been shared with affected neighbors who have also complained to council.

 

[ayebee]

Also on Mornington peninsula.
We have a couple of black wattles nearing end of life. We also have a covenant on our title that limits trees to 8m, I assume to avoid spoiling the neighbours views. A few years back a neighbour asked if I could trim the trees and I thought this was a good idea as it would also improve the trees' health. Got a tree guy out to quote and he immediately refused to touch them fearing fines from the council, so I went to the council and they outright rejected touching them, without any consideration of their health etc.
They now look very poorly and I suspect could become dangerous soon.
I did vaguely think about creating a contest in VCAT between council tree rules and state title covenants to see which has precedence, but let it slip under the "couldn't be bothered spending the money for some pointless exercise" rule.

 

[Cossie]

The limb we wanted removed from quite a large gum, not the whole tree, dropped a dead segment that took out one of our solar panels.
Should I send the bill to those that said we couldn't remove that limb as the tree had been there much longer than we had.

 

[prozac]

Also on Mornington peninsula.
We have a couple of black wattles nearing end of life. We also have a covenant on our title that limits trees to 8m, I assume to avoid spoiling the neighbours views. A few years back a neighbour asked if I could trim the trees and I thought this was a good idea as it would also improve the trees' health. Got a tree guy out to quote and he immediately refused to touch them fearing fines from the council, so I went to the council and they outright rejected touching them, without any consideration of their health etc.
They now look very poorly and I suspect could become dangerous soon.
I did vaguely think about creating a contest in VCAT between council tree rules and state title covenants to see which has precedence, but let it slip under the "couldn't be bothered spending the money for some pointless exercise" rule.

Wattle have a limited life span. IIRC about 12-15yrs. I reckon you need to stagger plantings a couple of years apart and different varieties so you always have a nice tree when the old one gets diseased and dies.