Noosa real estate agent Warren Evans fires up over Noosa’s chainsaw tree massacre

A long-time Noosa estate agent is fed up with the destruction of trees along the grand entrance to the region’s biggest tourist drawcard.

The final chop has come for a number of trees along Noosa Parade, the entry way to Hastings Street in Noosa.

Noosa real estate agent Warren Evans is fired up over what he sees as the systematic cutting down of trees along the grand entrance to Hastings St.

He is particularly concerned that in this case, it’s Noosa Council doing the removal.

Mr Evans posted to social media on Thursday night how “chainsaws are running rampant everyday all over the suburbs of Noosa”.

His outburst came after driving past the large stumps left in the middle of the Noosa Parade median strip

“I can’t understand how leafy Noosa is losing its trees at a rapid rate,” Mr Evans said.

“This doesn’t happen in the leafy suburbs of Melbourne or Sydney.

“I think the area’s losing tree, after tree, after tree.”

Mr Evans also lamented the rate of tree clearing by property owners.

“In the old Tewantin area we’ve got some of the most classic eucalypts that are over 200 years old, and every day another one comes down,” Mr Evans said.

Noosa real estate Warren Evans reckons Noosa’s trees are suffering a chainsaw massacre.

“I just think it’s a real shame.”

Mr Evan’s comments attracted more than 130 responses with some pointing out the trees were diseased and had to go for safety reasons.

John Delisser response was “trees just don’t get taken down for no reason”.

“Too close to the road, too big, rotten in the centre, splitting limbs falling,” he said.

However Phil Ohren said he had counted 28 taken down along this road and “the tree loppers are out every other week in this town”.

Council infrastructure services technical officer Jaro Bauleka said an arborist had assessed all the trees in the project site before contractors completed vegetation pruning and removal of selected species, including coconut palms, last month.

“Unfortunately some of these trees are causing significant damage to private and public infrastructure, so they had to be removed,” Mr Bauleka said.

“As part of the Noosa Parade upgrade, new landscaping and a large number of replacement trees will be replanted,” he said.

Mr Bauleka said the new trees would be native and suitable street trees to help improve the visual amenity and provide shade for people using the pathways and crossings.

The work is scheduled for February next year as part of the $4.6 million upgrade.

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