Cross overs (Road Reserves) aka~ Driveway entrances, Naturstrip trees and all the other shenanigans...

So I have had a busy few last days speaking to council about tree removal / replacement.
The questions asked by the council departments are always hard to answer at this stage because drawings aren't finalized but we know in order to finalize them we need to get tree removal approval and drive way moving and relocation approval - which ours will need to be a double to service the existing property and service the new property also.

As it happens I need to deal with two departments that don't necessarily work hand in hand.
For the Whitehorse Council two departments are your main concern for these two things:

1. Parkswide -

This is the department for tree evaluation by Arborist (aka tree guy) to come out and evaluate the street tree and then decide it its okay to remove *(certain trees are add to the area look so cant be removed)

The guy I have been dealing with is pretty nice guy Arborist from the council - I have spoken to him the past.  He left me a voice message saying he would get back to me on Monday with an answer as he's been working in a different department but will be back in office on Monday


I was recomended to an external Arborist opinion on the tree which was also a nice guy who recommended with the tree size we have it may not need him to evaluate it due to the tree not being very wide or very high about 2.5-3 m and less than 30cm in circumference  and that it might be prudent to just see what the council Arborist says because they have to evaluate it anyway to gauge the value I have to pay to remove it.
But he did give me the price to evaluate and the report $275inc gst and that he can remove it - which is nice to have if needed.