Plant plea

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 534, 3 May 1994, Page 4

Plant plea

FROMPAGE5 driveway entrance to a pri vate property or a pri vate parking . area. . Many property owners that havedri veways rising steeply from roads have inadequate stormwater drains and in heavy rainfall quantities of gravel and soil are deposited on the road. Vehicle movements to and from the property also contribute to the problem. Where debris from private property ends up on the roadway or footpaths the council requests that property owners clear the material themselves.

Council calls for property owners to control plants

The Ruapehu District Council is reminding property owners of their responsibility to control the vegetation originating on their property that may be encroaching onto footpaths and roadways. Chief Executive Cliff Houston said there have been problems encountered recently in urban areas where plants growing on private properties cause a nuisance to pedestrians and to traffic. "The council has the right to require owners to undertake vegetation trimming work where it is causing an obstruction", he said. "Most property owners co-operate and undertake trimming work themselves when they realise that anobstruction problem is developing. There are a few owners however, who allow an obstruction problem to develop." Another problem encountered by the council he said, is the movement of soil and gravel from private property onto road facilities. This problem is usually associated with a TURNTOPAGE4