2022-08-09 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   9 AUGUST 2022




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SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                              9 AUGUST 2022

                                                                                                                                                                   Noosa Shire Council
                                                                                                                                                 Guiding Principles for Tree Management

                       Appendix D - Tree Removal Criteria and Weightings

                                  Criteria                                                                                                            MSanting
                                                                                                                                                         Factor
                                                   e   Major structural damage evident
                                  Tree Safety      e   Root plate heaving out of ground                                                                 REMOVE           REMOVE
                                                   e   Bracket fungi present
                                  Occupancy        e   Low use/occupancy (5 Units)
                                    Targets        e   Occasional use/occupancy (4 Units)                                                                  x2                10
                                                   e   Frequent use/occupancy (2 Units)
                                                   e   Constant use/occupancy   (1 Unit
                                                   e   20+ years (5 Units)
                                  Useful Life  | *     a To oe set                                                                                         a                -
                                                   °    —10  years     nits
                                  Expectancy       |.  4=5 years(2 Units)
                                                   e   <1  year (0 Units
                                   oo              e   Ona Significant Tree Register, Queensland Heritage Register or Aboriginal and Torres Strait
                                Significance to        Cultural Heritage Register (5 Units)                                                                x4               20
                                 Environment       e   Remnant tree (3 Units)
                                                   e   Planted tree (1 Unit
                                                  e   Species listed as threatened under Nature Conservation Act 1992 (5 Units)
                                                  e   Species which is locally uncommon and/or a Koala food tree species (4 Units)
                                 Suitability of   «   Commonly occurring/represented/remnant endemic species for the area (3 Units)                        x5               25
                                    Species       e    Inappropriate species for natural site conditions (2 Units)
                                                  e   Undesirable species (1 Unit)
                                                  e    Invasive plant species (0 Units)
                                                  e   Roots unlikely to cause damage to infrastructure, based on species or proximity (5 Units)
                                                  e   Roots have or might cause damage but tree pre-dates infrastructure (3 Units)
                                 Infrastructure                         :                      :                          5           at      i
                                    issues        e   Roots have potential to cause damage to infrastructure based on species or proximity (2 Units)       x5               29
                                                  e   Tree is in proximity to overhead service wires and gets regularly pruned by Energex (1 Unit)
                                                  e   Roots have or are highly likely to cause damage to infrastructure — Trip Hazard(0 Units)         rota               400]

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