Arundel

Tree removal in Arundel

Name: Gold Coast Tree and Stump
Telephone: 0439 021 022

Tree removal, pruning and stump grinding in Arundel, on blocks that back onto wetland, golf course and bushland.

Tree work in Arundel

Wetlands, a golf course and old hollow trees

Coombabah Creek forms the western boundary of Arundel, and with the other wetlands it has made room for extensive open space: a conservation park, Arundel Hills Country Club and neighbourhood parks. Many blocks back onto that land rather than onto another yard, so a truck or an elevated platform often cannot reach the tree from behind. A tree by the back fence is climbed, lowered in pieces and carried out through the property, with nothing dropped onto the reserve or the course.

The City describes the Arundel section of the Coombabah Lakelands Conservation Area, bought with the Open Space Preservation Levy, as a place of wetlands and big hollow trees that provide breeding places for water birds. Queensland's wildlife rules restrict tampering with a protected animal's breeding place while it is in use. So a large hollow tree on a block near that reserve is checked for nesting birds and possums before it is cut, and the work may have to wait or be done in stages.

Services in Arundel

Working at the edge of park and wetland

What it costs: tree removal cost, stump grinding cost, palm removal cost

Compared: removal, lopping or pruning, stump grinding or stump removal, council tree rules compared

How it works

Four steps, and the permit comes before the price

Nothing happens without a written quote you have agreed to.

1
Call or send the form
Include the suburb, your details and what needs to be done.
2
A contractor comes to see it
On site, not off a photo, because access and what sits underneath change the job.
3
The permit position is checked
Against the city's vegetation mapping and the koala controls, before a price is given.
4
Quoted in writing
The quote sets out the scope, the timber, the stump and the date. Then a date is booked.

Arundel questions

Branches from the park, koalas and fire season

A branch from the conservation park hangs over our yard. Can it be cut?

Ask before anyone touches it. Coombabah Lake Conservation Park is a protected area, listed by name in the Queensland regulation that sets out the state's conservation parks, so its trees are protected area vegetation rather than yours or the council's street trees. The overhang is raised with the park's managers first, and nothing is dropped or dragged into the park.

Do koalas use the trees around the park?

Yes. The state's wildlife records for the park, which take in sightings within a kilometre of its boundary, hold 169 koala records, and the species is endangered under Queensland and national law. Under Queensland's koala rules a habitat tree stays standing while a koala sits in it, or in any tree whose crown overlaps it, so a eucalypt job near the park can stop until the koala moves on.

Bushland parklands sit behind our fence. What should be done before the fire season?

Get the trees on your side ready. The City Plan's bushfire hazard overlay maps parts of Collingwood Court Parklands as Very High Potential Bushfire Intensity, and other parts as High Potential Bushfire Intensity or Potential Impact Buffer. Prune your own trees and shrubs clear of the roofline and gutters and lift the low limbs before the season, but leave the trees inside the parklands alone, because they belong to the council.