Currumbin Valley
Tree removal in Currumbin Valley
Tree removal, stump grinding and pruning in Currumbin Valley, from camphor laurels on the creek flats to blocks below the national park.
Tree work in Currumbin Valley
Big blocks strung out along the creek valley
Queensland Places describes Currumbin Valley as extending along the Currumbin Creek valley for 13 km to Springbrook National Park, with homes spread out along that length. Leave out lots below 250 square metres and the City Plan's boundary data gives the suburb a median lot of 7,405 square metres. On a block that size a big tree can stand well back from the house and the road, so much of the job is moving timber: branches dragged a long distance to the chipper, or a tracked machine taken across the grass to the tree.
The City of Gold Coast notes large stands of the non-native camphor laurel along the valley bottom and on the slopes beside it, in the mid-catchment of Currumbin Creek, where the valley is relatively narrow and steep-sided. An old camphor grows into a big, spreading tree, so taking one out is usually climbing work, with the limbs lowered in sections on ropes and the stump ground out afterwards. The seedlings that come up around it need following up while they are still small enough to pull.
The environmental covenants map kept by the City puts 19 environmental protection covenant areas wholly within Currumbin Valley, plus two of the kind it calls Higher VCA. They lie over bushland on privately owned blocks. A covenant written into a title can limit what may be cut inside its boundary, so a tree standing in a covenant area is checked against the title and that map before it is priced.
Services in Currumbin Valley
Camphor stands, big blocks and covenant checks
Tree removal
Spreading camphor laurels on the flats and slopes climbed and taken down limb by limb.
Stump grinding
Camphor stumps ground out once the tree is down, with the grinder walked in across the block.
Tree removal permits
Covenant areas and the state's protected plants mapping looked at before a native tree is priced.
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.
Currumbin Valley questions
Fire in the national park, and threatened rainforest trees
Has bushfire burnt the park at the head of the valley?
It has, within the last decade. Queensland's park fire history records a wildfire that burnt about 67 hectares in the Cougals section of Springbrook National Park. On a block that backs onto the park, limbs over the roof and gutters are worth cutting back before each fire season, while the trees inside the park are state land.
What does the state's list for Nicoll Scrub mean for a tree job?
Nicoll Scrub National Park lies inside Currumbin Valley, and the Queensland Government's WildNet list for the park and the land within one kilometre of it records the endangered smooth davidsonia, the critically endangered scrub turpentine and the vulnerable durobby. All three are native rainforest trees. Before native trees come out on a block near the park, the state's flora survey trigger map is worth checking, and that can add lead time to the job.
