Tree Management in New Panvel, Panvel.

CIDCO planted New Panvel's sector roads and society compounds when the node was young, and those trees (gulmohar, rain tree, Indian almond, the odd mango) have grown big. Redevelopment puts them at risk: a new gate, a ramp or a wider footprint can put a mature tree in the way. We survey each one on the plot and along its frontage, suggest where the design can shift to keep it, and file with the Tree Authority only for those that truly cannot remain.

New Panvel is the CIDCO node laid out beside the old market town, across the railway station from its bazaar lanes. It was planned in numbered sectors of housing-society buildings, row houses and schools, with markets at the sector centres and a grid of internal roads. For years it grew slowly and stayed low. That has changed with the airport and the new approach roads: older plots are being redeveloped into taller buildings, and open land at its edges is taken up by residential layouts. Most of its people commute, by rail or road, to jobs elsewhere in the region.