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The Tree Council has collaborated with Forest & Bird to make it easy for you to make a quick submission on Mayor Wayne Brown’s proposed austerity budget, which if implemented will cut a huge number of programmes and services that protect our environment, the arts and our communities. We need to get as many submissions Read More …

Media release: for immediate release 1 February 2023 The Tree Council is experiencing first hand, along with everyone else, the worst ravages of the flooding, landslips, chaos and carnage currently engulfing Auckland. The record-breaking rainfall and its unprecedented intensity is a clear signal of the future weather events we must expect to experience with increasing Read More …

Media release: for immediate release 14 December 2022 The Government recently introduced new legislation to replace the Resource Management Act and this is currently in select committee.  The Tree Council is calling on the public to make submissions on this new law now. This will be our last and final opportunity to influence how this Read More …

Media release: for immediate release 20 November 2022 The Tree Council welcomes the Labour Government’s announcement that they plan to re-introduce controls to enable local councils to better protect urban trees in the National Planning Framework as part of the Natural and Built Environments Act. We are glad to see that the Government recognises that Read More …

Media release: for immediate release Tuesday 15 November 2022 The Tree Council is angry and disappointed that the Labour Government has failed to deliver any improvement in the protection of urban trees in its draft legislation to replace the Resource Management Act, which had its first reading in Parliament today. The draft Natural and Built Read More …

The Tree Council welcomes the recent Auckland Council Planning Committee’s decision to put forward additional trees to be added to Schedule 10 (Notable Trees) in the upcoming notification of the August 2022 Unitary Plan change. In addition the Committee recognised that work will continue to process further trees that have been nominated and noted that Read More …

Media release: for immediate release Sunday 17 July 2022 The Tree Council is delighted to announce that we have settled, with an out-of-court agreement with Auckland Council, our judicial review of Auckland Council’s November 2020 decision not to allocate any resources to the management of Schedule 10 (Notable Trees). The specific terms of the settlement Read More …

The Tree Council is delighted to announce that the Independent Hearing Commissioners have granted Plan Change 68, and the notable pohutukawa that sits on top of a volcanic feature in the garden of the property at 8 Eglinton Avenue, Mt Eden will be retained and added to Schedule 10 (Notable Trees) in the Auckland Unitary Read More …

Media release: for immediate release Monday 28 February 2022 The Tree Council lodged proceedings in the High Court in November 2021 against Auckland Council’s decision not to process any of the 587 nominations it has received over the last 7-10 years to schedule trees as Notable Trees since the creation of Schedule 10 (Notable Trees) Read More …

Auckland Council is proposing replacing the transitional rates grants which are for Auckland landowners who have voluntary natural heritage protection covenants on their properties and were past recipients of legacy rates remissions schemes that were removed in 2018.  What covenants provide for: A natural heritage protection covenant is an agreement between Auckland Council (or another authorised Read More …