ABOUT 800 signatures have been collected on a petition to save Inverell’s English plane trees and Garry Newley from the Inverell Heritage Trees Action Group (IHTAG) thinks that demonstrates a widespread interest in the issue by the community.
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It will be presented to Inverell Shire Council’s general manager later this week.
“We’ve done a bit of a break-up, we’ve got a good 60 or 70 signatures from the villages outlying Inverell and probably more than 50 from farming and grazing properties as well,” Mr Newley said.
“I think you can never have enough signatures, and it has been a fairly passive exercise in collecting signatures, we haven’t been standing on street corners bothering people.
“But it does show that we do represent the broader community in our concerns.”
Mr Newley said that while the group was primarily interested in the plane trees they were also concerned with ‘proper process’.
“We don’t believe proper process has been followed,” Mr Newley said.
“It’s not simply about ‘the trees’, these trees have bought a whole lot of issues to light.
“Certainly we want to retain them but we also want to make sure that the process is improved, so something like this never happens again,” Mr Newley said.
