More trees are facing the chop in Perth’s southern suburbs under plans by Aquinas College to build 12 new tennis courts.

The tennis court development is part of a $25 million project for a new recital hall and music centre, hockey building, tennis courts and a university facility which was approved by the Metro Inner Development Assessment panel last October.

The college’s existing tennis courts will be relocated and replaced, while the school’s northern car park will be reconfigured to create more car bays.

The South Perth Tree Advocates Facebook page said the removal of the “significant area of canopy” would come at a considerable cost to the school and the surrounding community “in terms of loss of amenity, shade and cooling, habitat and more”.

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