Currumbin
Tree removal in Currumbin
Tree lopping, removal and stump grinding in Currumbin, including the steep blocks on the slope west of the highway.
Tree work in Currumbin
Houses on the slope of a conservation park
Currumbin Hill Conservation Park takes up a large part of the elevated slope west of the Gold Coast Highway, and the rest of that slope is steep house allotments. On a block like that a truck or an elevated platform often cannot get near the tree, so it is climbed and taken down in sections, and the timber is lowered or carried out to the street.
The Queensland Government's wildlife list for the park, which counts sightings up to one kilometre outside it, records the endangered scented acronychia and the vulnerable stinking cryptocarya. Remnant native vegetation near the hill is worth checking against the state's protected plants mapping before it comes out.
Services in Currumbin
Climbing work on the hillside
Tree removal
Climbed and lowered in pieces where the slope keeps machinery off the block.
Hedge trimming
Hedges cut back along the boundary, with the clippings carried up to the street.
Stump grinding
Stumps ground out with a machine small enough to reach a sloping back yard.
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 questions
The sanctuary trees, and the park next door
Are the big trees around the sanctuary protected?
Yes. The Queensland Heritage Register entry for Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary names mature trees throughout the sanctuary, the reserve, car park, and Alex Griffiths Park among the features of state level significance, with the bushland setting and Flat Rock Creek. Work on one of those goes through the state heritage process first.
Can a branch hanging over from the park be cut back?
Ask first. Currumbin Hill Conservation Park is named in Queensland's Nature Conservation (Protected Areas) Regulation as one of the conservation parks, so its trees are not council street trees. Before an overhanging branch from the park is cut, what can be done is confirmed with the park's managers.
