Plea to save Norfolk pine fails in Environment Court
Efforts to gain an interim enforcement order to stop the felling of a 150-year-old Norfolk pine in north Auckland have been rejected by the Environment Court.
The Snells Beach community have been fighting to save the tree since blocking contractors from cutting it down in August.
It sits on what will be reserve land in a 33-home development by Vavasour Investments.
Michele MacKenzie of Warkworth applied for the order ex parte - without notice to any other party - to stall Vavasour from cutting the tree down while Auckland Council processed an application to protect it, based on significant and relevant information that was not taken into account by the council when granting resource consent.
Judge David Kirkpatrick noted the process of adding the tree to the schedule of notable trees in the Auckland Unitary Plan would require a change to the plan under the Resource Management Act.
"That process will take some time and requires public notification.
But there is no good reason to make an order based on that," he said.
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