PSC are one of the main perpatrator of this sort of Vandilism, have a look at One mile beach headland as an example.... If they are making no money from it, it's called vandilism, if they are making money it's good for the community,in the end, both are killing trees, so who is right & who is wrong ???? it's funny how people change laws to suit themselves or their situations.

What they did at Boat Harbour was a waste of rate payers money & should of been spent on more important thing such as paying the legal costs they have inccured from bad business management from the past. If you work with the community, problems like that can be solved and not cause more problems, by putting more plants there.

Personally, the same problem will come back to haunt the PSC in another 10yrs, with the same outcome.

how many of these councillors have cleared such things ????

I think a few would be guilty of the same thing.

This would be an ideal solution in an ideal world. Unfortunately, we know that Council doesn't have the resources to police all public property or "catch the guilty people." It's therefore incumbent upon us, the residents to assist. Again unfortunately, we don't. The majority of incidents of vandalism (of all types) are witnessed by someone but the 'ozzie' ethic that we don't dob on each other prevents people from stepping forward to report or blow the whistle. Until that ethic is overcome the best answer is to erect something that says 'look what someone has done to your environment ... if you saw it happened step forward and tell us about it, otherwise look at this ugliness for a few months.' I don't view it as a penalty or punishment at all, just a reminder that something natural and nice stood here a short while ago, and now it doesn't. It's the best we can do in a less than ideal world.