{"id":14648,"date":"2025-10-23T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=14648"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:27:43","slug":"yarra-excessive-tree-pruning-says-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2025\/10\/23\/yarra-excessive-tree-pruning-says-resident\/","title":{"rendered":"YARRA: Excessive tree pruning, says resident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City of Yarra resident Shane Delphine has told the local Council that street trees are \u201cunder constant assault\u201d by excessive pruning necessitated by compliance with Electric Line Clearance Regulations.<br>\u201cWhen this matter was last addressed by officers in December 2023 hope was expressed that a review in 2025 would result in the emergence of more sensible pruning regulations for urban areas,\u201d the October 14 municipal meetingt was tolf.<br>Yarra General Manager Infrastructure and Environment Sam Hewett (pictured) said that the<br>State Government announced in June that the existing electric line clearance regulations were being extended for a further 12 months while it continued work on drafting new regulations.<br>\u201cThe new draft regulations are expected in the coming months and we\u2019re advised that consultation will then be required.<br>\u201cCouncil\u2019s position has not changed \u2013 that clearance obligations for Yarra\u2019s street trees<br>are too harsh &#8211; and we intend to continue to advocate for changes to the regulations for local government areas like ours,\u201d Mr Hewett said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Yarra resident Shane Delphine has told the local Council that street trees are \u201cunder constant assault\u201d by excessive pruning necessitated by compliance with Electric Line Clearance Regulations.\u201cWhen this matter was last addressed by officers in December 2023 hope was expressed that a review in 2025 would result in the emergence of more sensible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14652,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648\/revisions\/14652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}