Bigger houses squeezed onto smaller blocks leave our suburbs sweating. How do we ‘re-green’ Perth?
Bigger houses squeezed onto smaller blocks leave our suburbs sweating. How do we ‘re-green’ Perth?
Perth has the worst tree canopy cover of any Australian capital, with the state government putting it as low as 16 per cent coverage.
Apparantly there is no way to influence demand for housing.
While Nigel Satterley and his weekend tours of his estates have a lot of the blame for the farce that is WA property development. I'm glad this article highlighted the individuals attitude problem in regards trees.
So many people I know love to cut a tree down, and for the smallest reason. That its messy, in their way, blocks their view, they're sprinting for the chainsaws.
I spoke to someone who lives in Bushmead estate where the development has kept a fair amount of trees. And they were complaining about leaves on the road, and in their yard! As if thats a reasonable issue to warrant choppin the trees down. The leaves probably gather so much as a result of the small block big house regime creating brick corridors.
The housing design in WA is so wrong for our wider life. Good article!