Urban planner Sebastian Pfautsch "nearly fell out of his chair" when he mapped the $17 million proposal by Royal Sydney Golf Club in Rose Bay to remove what he estimated were 5.4 hectares of paperbarks, hoop pines and Moreton Bay figs.
"Replacing a mature tree that provides 300 square metres of shade, food and habitat with an advanced tree that has three square metres of shade is just not going to work," he said. "We don't just need to replace individual trees, but the canopy cover they provide."His comments coincide with plans by NSW Minister for Planning and Public Spaces Rob Stokes to ask councils for "big and small" ideas to increase canopy cover to 40 per cent across Sydney.
The Royal Sydney Golf Club development application to modernise its golf course, and remove trees marked in red, has attracted ferocious opposition.The "Greening our City" plan notes that valuable green infrastructure in eastern Sydney is located on private land, such as golf courses. With climate change, he said it was unclear whether newly planted trees would ever grow as much as those planted when the weather was not as hot and dry.
The removal of trees would also provide 64 per cent more fairway space and wider playing corridors, golf magazines reported.
‘With growing tension over access to open space, councils and communities are questioning the footprint of golf, which is played regularly by 2-3 per cent of the population.’
Rose Bay golf is a leftover from the 40s Syd has no more land for golf courses It is unaffordable luxury now when many bush golf clubs went bankrupt
NSW Minister for Planning and Public Spaces Rob Stokes to ask councils for 'big and small' ideas to increase canopy cover to 40 per cent across Sydney' pompous Rose Bay gold wants to chop off 500 trees Amazing vandalism for extra hole
No it must be STOPPED
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