27 August 2009

felling trees, making space, making Millions of $$$'s ?

After 4 years of bringing this up the Melb Leader Newspaper has taken the story and asked the right questions.
see below
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HAVE YOUR SAY: Grave fears on tree scheme

HAVE YOUR SAY: Grave fears on tree scheme
Heiko Rudolph at the cemetery.
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MELBOURNE General Cemetery's neighbours fear the felling of trees on its boundary fence is part of a plot to squeeze more graves into the necropolis.
Carlton's Heiko Rudolph said the cemetery's failure to replace the 130 heritage-listed cypress trees that lined the cemetery until 2005 had raised eyebrows among nearby residents.
"There's a bit of talk among the neighbours that maybe the motivation for this is about freeing up a bit of extra grave space," Mr Rudolph said.
"These sites cost tens of thousands of dollars and it's no secret that the old cemeteries, where grave sites are highly sought after, are running out of space."
Small trees replanted in the same position would allow for hundreds of new grave sites, reaping millions of dollars in revenue for the cemetery.
Rod Shell, operations manager of the cemetery's management company, Necropolis, refused to rule out putting more grave sites on land left open following the giant trees' removal.
"You never rule out things. Who knows what will happen, but there's no current plan," Mr Shell said.
But the organisation was committed to replacing the trees and had begun planting in recent months.
Heritage Victoria granted a permit for the trees' removal only on the condition that they were replaced with the same species.
"The problem for us is that these aren't trees that are commonly grown any more and Heritage Victoria was insistent we use the exact species so we've had to actually cultivate the trees and there's been some difficulties in getting them," Mr Shell said.
He said the trees were removed because of safety fears after several fell over.
But Mr Rudolph said many residents remained sceptical about the reasons for the removal.
"When they chopped them down, I inspected and photographed the trunks and none of them showed any signs of decay or decline," he said.






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