Cedar Creek
Tree removal in Cedar Creek
Tree removal, pruning and stump grinding on the Gold Coast side of Cedar Creek, across its forested slopes and creek flats.
Tree work in Cedar Creek
One locality, two councils, and very big lots
Cedar Creek is split between Logan City Council and the City of Gold Coast, and only its Gold Coast part falls under the City of Gold Coast's tree rules. Leaving out lots under 250 square metres, the City Plan's property boundary data gives that part a median lot of 42,670 square metres. On a block that size the tree can stand a paddock away from the gate, so the quote covers the walk in or a tracked machine, room to land big sections, and plenty of green waste to chip or leave as mulch.
The City of Gold Coast's 2019 vegetation mapping shows white mahogany open forest in Cedar Creek Conservation Area, a City reserve in the Gold Coast part, some of it with tallowwood and grey gum. Forest red gum and ironbark, spotted gum and ironbark, and river red gum, some with river she-oak, are mapped there as well. All of these are tall, dense hardwoods, so one close to a house on the reserve edge comes down in sections on ropes, and a river red gum may stand on wet ground that no truck should cross.
The City of Gold Coast's history of Cedar Creek, archived in 2013, follows the creek from the western slopes of Mt Tamborine down a series of waterfalls, then through forested slopes and creek flats until it joins the Albert River. Within the locality, that course lies in the Gold Coast part. On the flats the soil stays soft after rain, so machinery keeps off it and a tree on an undercut bank is checked for lean, while on the slopes a tree is lowered in pieces rather than felled downhill.
Services in Cedar Creek
Paddock carries, hardwood and soft creek ground
Tree removal
Big gums far from the gate reached on foot or by tracked machine, then brought down in large sections.
Tree pruning
Dead wood and low limbs taken off trees around houses that face bushland reserves on the Gold Coast side.
Stump grinding
Stumps on the creek flats ground out once the soil has firmed up after rain.
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.
Cedar Creek questions
Rodborough Park's blue gum, and fire-mapped reserves
Who manages the giant blue gum in Rodborough Park?
The City does, because the park sits on the Gold Coast side of Cedar Creek. Its tree register, in a record last edited in 2016, lists that Queensland blue gum as remarkable tree 125, 45 metres tall, and describes it as the tallest tree on the register and bordering on veteran status. A gum that tall has a wide root zone, so stump or root work on the blocks around the park is planned around it.
Is the reserve bushland on the Gold Coast side mapped for fire?
Yes. On the City Plan's bushfire hazard area overlay, parts of the Upper Cedar Creek Section of the Wongawallan Conservation Area, which lies on the Gold Coast side, are mapped as Very High Potential Bushfire Intensity, and the City's 2024 hazard reduction burn program listed a burn in that section. Next to bushland like that, dead branches, low limbs and anything hanging over the roof are worth dealing with before the fire season, while the trees inside the reserve are the City's to manage.
