The purpose of these changes is to integrate urban tree protection with the Bill’s framework to accelerate the supply of housing to enable increased social, environmental, and cultural wellbeing through development. Under these changes, local authorities will be required to use intensification planning instruments and the intensification streamlined planning process to prohibit or restrict the felling, damaging, or removal of a tree or trees on land in an urban environment or land otherwise within the council’s jurisdiction where necessary to achieve the identified objectives and policies of the NPS-UD. This will ensure that the environmental and liveability benefits of urban trees can be recognised through planning instruments, as housing intensification occurs. In October 2018, the Biodiversity Collaborative Group recommended the Minister for the Environment review the restrictions in the principal Act and amend them following the outcome of the review, stating that “the urban forest has significant ecological, social, cultural and economic values.” Urban trees provide habitats and food for our native species and enhance the liveability of our cities. As we provide for more housing in our urban environments through the Bill, the changes in this Supplementary Order Paper would ensure local government can create rules that work alongside this to provide shade and habitats and food for native wildlife, to enhance air quality, reduce noise and increase environmental and mental wellbeing, as well as reduce soil erosion, reduce stormwater runoff to beaches and streams, and sequester carbon.