Reply To: The Greens and O Connell Street

The O’CLL Street development team are being very ambiguous and inconsistant on this. They keep saying that the existing trees are too big for the street and are obliterating the buildings, and yet they are proposing that equally tall trees (although slenderer) be planted even closer to the buildings at the edge of the footpaths! Smaller clipped lime trees are to be placed down the centre. Still, I do think that the existing trees are far too overwhelming, indeed a good many were only planted in the 60’s and 80’s, what I do not agree with is the breaking up of the street with a central plaza. The overall effect of O’ Cll Street, relies nearly entirely upon it’s fantastic continuity, as does any similar boulevard.