Vegetation Removal from East End Reserve

Tidying up a messy area of East End Reserve will see the removal of more than 100 plants and trees.

Work starts this week on taking out poor-specimen trees and other plants from a central area next to the skatepark and half-court.

“We’re keeping seven good-quality trees for their amenity value and their shade, and so people can picnic beneath them during summer,” says District Arborist Conrad Pattison.

“The vegetation we’re removing is scrubby and overgrown and of poor quality, and it’s an area where people just throw rubbish. Opening up this area will improve it a lot.”

The removals will take about a week, weather permitting. Over the following weeks a digger will take out the stumps, after which soil and grass seed will be laid down.