We do need more trees, but we also need to have the existing ones maintained. We offered to the Auckland council to pay an Arborist to trim a tree on the berm outside our property to a manageable size, consulting with the council first but the council refused. The only option to put it a jobs list.

After repeated jobs logged, the council contracted crew just trimmed the tree so people did not have run into it on the footpath and where it met our fence line. When we were under Franklin Council, they trimmed the same trees back every two years, for decades, but not Auckland Supercity