Woodford Bay on Sydney’s lower north shore, its exclusive white mansions and quaint boat sheds nestled into gnarly, urban bush abutting the harbour, has the type of serenity only lots of money can buy in Australia’s most ostentatiously wealthy city.
You don’t need Holmesian powers of deduction to figure that public trees right across Australia, not least in Castle Cove and Woodford Bay, are more likely than not killed by those seeking to enhance views and, accordingly, property values.
Socially, therefore, the illegal killing of trees is a contemptuous act of theft from community; a criminal offence that should be pursued with the legal and law-enforcement vigour of other property and wilful damage crimes.
Her recent book with John Page, The Lawful Forest, traces the social history – dating to pre-Norman England – of tensions between communal and relational property, and the “private, commodified and enclosed” opposite.
Similar strategies are used in Sydney, rural NSW and Queensland to multiple ends: to deny the awarding of a prized view for an illegal act; to discourage copycats – and to publicly shame perpetrators.
Jane Lofthouse, the manager of sustainability and environment at Tweed Shire in northern NSW, says that in response to episodes of “vegetation vandalism’’ since 2016 the council has erected large signs in front – or in place – of the canopies of damaged and removed trees.
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Woodford Bay on Sydney’s lower north shore, its exclusive white mansions and quaint boat sheds nestled into gnarly, urban bush abutting the harbour, has the type of serenity only lots of money can buy in Australia’s most ostentatiously wealthy city.
You don’t need Holmesian powers of deduction to figure that public trees right across Australia, not least in Castle Cove and Woodford Bay, are more likely than not killed by those seeking to enhance views and, accordingly, property values.
Socially, therefore, the illegal killing of trees is a contemptuous act of theft from community; a criminal offence that should be pursued with the legal and law-enforcement vigour of other property and wilful damage crimes.
Her recent book with John Page, The Lawful Forest, traces the social history – dating to pre-Norman England – of tensions between communal and relational property, and the “private, commodified and enclosed” opposite.
Similar strategies are used in Sydney, rural NSW and Queensland to multiple ends: to deny the awarding of a prized view for an illegal act; to discourage copycats – and to publicly shame perpetrators.
Jane Lofthouse, the manager of sustainability and environment at Tweed Shire in northern NSW, says that in response to episodes of “vegetation vandalism’’ since 2016 the council has erected large signs in front – or in place – of the canopies of damaged and removed trees.
The original article contains 1,521 words, the summary contains 227 words. Saved 85%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!