Felling and tidying up trees in Queen Elizabeth Park, Masterton, is due to start next week now a tender has been let and signed off.
Downer New Zealand won the contract, submitting a tender for $55,985 with the work to be completed by the end of September.
Masterton District Council chief executive Pim Borren signed off the contract late last week and said the scope of the work to be done had changed slightly since the tender process started.
The work will be the biggest tree felling and maintenance programme ever carried out in the park with 132 trees on Memorial Drive, around the park lake, the boat shed, cafe area and Pioneer Cemetery on the list.
Of this the intention, at least when the tender process started, was to fell 48 trees and carry out a variety of maintenance jobs on the others.
