Tauranga property developer Bob Clarkson is petitioning council to remove two neighbouring pohutukawa trees he says are causing issues on his property.

The pair of pohutukawa trees outside Bob's Pillans Road house were planted about a decade ago after Bob paid for the removal of two jacaranda trees that preceded them.

Bob Clarkson is seeking the removal of two pohutukawa trees on his Pillans Point property.

The property developer and former Tauranga MP didn't like the jacarandas' habit of dropping long skinny leaves that stick to the concrete and are hard to get rid of.

'So I paid the council $5500 to pull the things down and replace them,” says Bob.

'I never got involved with what to replace them with, because I trusted them. They went and put bloody pohutukawas there, which drop three different types of stuff during the year - from the browny dust with little hairs on it - which really upsets my wife and makes her cough and sneeze – to little yellow things, and leaves. So we get three lots now.”

At this week's Tauranga City Council meeting Bob passed around a shopping bag full of pohutukawa dust that is swept off his deck every week.

He told councillors he originally expected the jacarandas to be replaced with ‘clean' trees like kauri. He would still like kauris in preference to pohutukawa, and he's prepared to pay.

The council is unable to make an immediate decision on information presented during public forums.

City arborist Richard Conning will present a report and councillors will discuss it at the relevant committee meeting before a decision is made.