Absoultely thrilled to reveal the alternative 7 options that have been devised by Vic Roads to Save the Doreen Red Gums! We thank you Vic Roads for hearing us! Please email Richard Wynne. He will be making a decision on the route soon! Further information is as below for your emails & I will post as well. �❤️�❤️richard.wynne@parliament.vic.gov.au 

Doreen Red Gums information...
The amount these trees give to community has not been taken into consideration. Many of our first world problems would be solved by connecting with nature and trees. Recently I drove from Craigieburn to Doreen. It all looks the same until you arrive at the Doreen Red Gums. So many 100’s possibly 1000's of these old growth River Red Gums have been lost due to development.
WE NEED TO SAVE THE DOREEN RED GUMS! The heart & soul is being ripped out of our country. Recent Australia doesn’t have a long history, our history is held in the trees.

Back in the 1960's the previous owner of 25 Doctors Gully rd Clary Sach ( Property owner 1950-1977 ) instigated the mains water being brought to Doreen.
He also stood vehemently beside the Doreen Red Gums and refused the power lines to be put through so these stunning River Red gums would grow on for generations. The government bodies heard him and the power was put across to the opposite side of the road and the Doreen Red Gums were saved. Now close on 60 years forward we too will be standing strong and proud by our culturally significant heritage trees to protect them to be saved for generations to come.

I strongly believe the route originally chosen by Vic Roads is a huge over allowance for traffic flowing from all approaches. Again having driven through many intersections in these areas other intersections don’t have the amount of lanes for traffic as projected to be required at the Doreen intersection. As The Shire of Nullumbik is The Green Wedge development isn’t on the cards on the Eastern side of Yan Yean rd, the intersection lay out on other options is well beyond what will be required for many, many years to come.

I ask you along with many 1000’s of others to please choose the Yan Yean rd Bridge Inn rd Up grade Option 3 alternatively 3 B. These options will protect the Doreen Red Gums.

This is my urgent concern for the two 400 and 500 year old River Red Gums on the corner of Yan Yean rd and Doctors Gully rd ( 25 Doctors Gully rd ) Doreen. We have lived on this property for the last 40 years and have seen so much change in the last few years, so many of these trees and local heritage has been lost.

This is The City of Whittlesea Gould report that states : Ensures widening does not threaten these exact trees.

We are wanting to protect these stunning 500 and a 400 year old River Red Gums.
Recently these beautiful Red Gums age was confirmed by local indigenous Wurundjeri people and an archaeologist at 500 and 400 years old, we believe these trees to be some of the oldest Eucalyptus camaldulensis not just in Victoria but Australia. They deserve to live on for generations to come to enjoy, we want to contribute towards keeping “The Green Wedge” green and protecting these two trees forever.

These stunning trees were here back when this land was cared for by the local indigenous people, when Captain Cook arrived, when the land was farmed for the last 200 years providing shade, a resting place, an absorber of carbon produced over this time and housed many animals over these years.

These trees are well known and local land marks. So many of these beautiful gums have been lost recently in this region, even more reason these trees need to be saved.

We ask you to please choose Vic Roads routes ideally 3 or 3 B that would allow these stunning old River Red Gums to live on. Doreen has already recently lost the Doreen Hall Est 1908. We ask to please keep these icons of Australian natural history alive!

PLANNING SCHEME

22.10 RIVER RED GUM PROTECTION POLICY 27/03/2014

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This policy applies to the protection of River Red Gums located in urban and rural areas.

Policy Basis

Mature River Red Gums in an open plains grassland environment are generally recognised as the most important visual and environmental feature of this municipality. Many of the River Red Gums within the urban areas have been estimated to be between 200-800 years of age.

Existing and future urban areas such as Mill Park, South Morang and Mernda/Doreen contain significant River Red Gum habitat. Council’s experience has been that very few of the original River Red Gums survive the surrounding encroachment of urban development, unless careful site assessment and planning occurs. It is therefore essential that existing River Red Gums are properly assessed and treated as an integral part of development design. This policy aims to provide guidance to applicants in the design of development proposals to ensure that River Red Gums are assessed and incorporated into development design.

Objective

To ensure that the development of urban and rural areas takes into account the presence, retention, enhancement and long term viability of River Red Gums in urban areas.

Policy

It is policy to:

� Recognise the intrinsic value of River Red Gums in establishing character and identity in urban and rural areas.

� Request a comprehensive site analysis and arborist’s report with any planning proposal for development on land which contains one or more remnant River Red Gums.

� Encourage that the majority of River Red Gums proposed for retention are sited in public open space reserves and/or road reserves.

� Ensure that, where a tree is to be located in a lot, the lot is large enough to accommodate a suitable development envelope that does not disturb the tree or its root system.

� Ensure that, where feasible, areas of significant River Red Gum regeneration are protected in any development proposal.

� Encourage tree removal to be generally limited to only those trees independently assessed as presenting a danger to people and property.

� Appropriately protect trees identified for retention during the construction phase, and thereafter ensure that their health is regularly monitored by an appropriate environmental consultant where located on public land.

� Ensure that any tree nominated on a development and/or subdivision plan for protection is located within an appropriate tree protection zone. The protection zone must be large enough to ensure that the trunk and canopy remain intact and that the root system is not severely damaged or destroyed during the construction phase.

� Ensure that any planning permit for subdivision which contains a protected tree on a lot includes a requirement that the protected tree, protection envelope, development envelope and any conditions relating thereto be nominated on the relevant title.

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Policy Reference

River Red Gum Protection Policy

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VIC ROADS ROUTE 3

VIC ROADS ROUTE 3 B

I am asking for you and your team to do all you can to help protect this stunning part of the Shire of Nullumbik before all our green wedge is lost…

I am appealing to you to please hear our calls and make the right decision to Save the Doreen Red Gums.

I look forward to hearing from you.