Royal Sydney Golf Club will modify its controversial $17 million redevelopment to retain more than 100 of the 569 trees that were slated for the chop | juliepower
Royal Sydney Golf Club will modify its controversial $17 million redevelopment to retain more than 100 of the 569 trees that were slated for the chop.
"Make no mistake the club’s plan to chop down a forest is not going away, it will come back and we will be there when it does," said Ms Grieve who established a Save Our Trees Campaign on Facebook.AdvertisementIn a letter to members on Friday night, Mr Chapman wrote the club realised "our DA [development application] would be aided by the retention of many more trees and much deeper information on understorey cover, tree canopy cover and further ecological work.
Mr Chapman told members that council had given it a mammoth task. It had asked the club to detail every tree on site regardless of height, and engage an independent arborist to "peer review" the club's reports and identify how they could be improved. The 57-hectare 18-hole course at the elite Rose Bay club has slipped from one of the top 20 in NSW to the top 50 to 100. The club argues that narrowing playing corridors have impacted the quality of the playing surfaces. The course's greens, tees, bunkers, drainage and irrigation were also in decline.
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