Coolangatta

Tree removal in Coolangatta

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

Tree lopping, removal and stump grinding in Coolangatta, from the beachfront streets up to the blocks on the border.

Tree work in Coolangatta

Sea wind, and a state line down the middle

Coolangatta is the southern-most settlement within Gold Coast City, and it runs straight into Tweed Heads across Boundary Street, which climbs the headland to Point Danger. A tree on the Coolangatta side comes under the City of Gold Coast. One a few metres the other way is in New South Wales under Tweed Shire Council, so a job near the line starts with which side the trunk stands on.

In the wake of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, strong winds ripped up protected trees at Coolangatta, and across the Gold Coast the City deemed Norfolk pines unsafe where its assessments found major trunk and root plate movement.

A tree still standing after a blow like that can have a shifted root plate. Lifted turf at the base or a new lean gets looked at before anyone climbs it or works underneath.

Services in Coolangatta

Salt air and tight beachside yards

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.

Coolangatta questions

The pines along the beachfront

Who looks after the pines in the beachfront parks?

The council does. The Norfolk pines in Queen Elizabeth Park and Pat Fagan Park are on the City's local heritage register, which calls the mature trees a signature part of the Coolangatta foreshore landscape and vista. Work on one of them goes through the City, and a tree inside your own boundary is a separate job.

How big do the foreshore pines get?

Very big. The National Trust lists the Coolangatta foreshore Norfolk pines, from Kirra Hill and including Greenmount Hill and the Rainbow Bay foreshore, as a plantation of 253 trees with a recorded height of 32m when measured in 2014. Anything cut near trees that size is planned around where a falling limb would land, because they stand over paths and parking.