The five-day process saw eight trees chopped down and a further 26 trimmed, including the tree that had been decorated with Christmas lights up until last year.

Chainsaws echoed across town from dusk Monday for the work which had to finish by the weekend to meet state and federal government license guidelines.

A keen eye has been kept on the park to see the response from the flying fox colony and numbers seem to be much the same.

With the work now complete the orange barricades warning people of the tree danger have now been removed and Singleton Council is set to head into stage two of the work.

This includes planting more trees to replace those cut down.

Council has engaged a landscape architect to draw a plan of the proposed new planting and council will consult with the community to discuss the final plan for the historic park.