Gaven
Tree removal in Gaven
Tree removal, lopping and stump grinding on the bigger rural blocks of Gaven, including those on the edge of Hymix Reserve.
Tree work in Gaven
The older acreage that kept the Gaven name
In 2004 most of Gaven was renamed Pacific Pines, and the name Gaven stayed with the rural/residential parts that existed before Pacific Pines was subdivided. Unit-sized lots aside, the City Plan's property boundary data gives the suburb a median lot of 5,000 square metres, while in each of the six suburbs bordering it the median sits between 675 and 800.
That much room usually lets a truck, chipper, stump grinder or elevated platform get right up to the tree. It also brings longer drags to the chipper, more trees on each block and more green waste to cart, so a quote here often allows more machine time than a job on a suburban lot.
Services in Gaven
Room for the machines, and more timber to move
Tree removal
Felled in big pieces where the block leaves clear ground, and taken down in sections close to the house.
Tree lopping
Heavy limbs over sheds, fences and long driveways cut back before a storm brings them down.
Stump grinding
Several stumps on one block ground out in a single visit, with the grindings spread or carted away.
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.
Gaven questions
Hymix Reserve's forest, fire mapping and koalas
What grows in Hymix Reserve?
Tall eucalypt forest. The City's vegetation mapping shows broad-leaved white mahogany and Queensland stringybark open forest in the reserve, growing on metasediments, with patches of gum-topped ironbark woodland. Where the same trees stand near a house, the timber is heavy and dense enough to call for a large chipper, and a stump grinder big enough for the root plates.
Is fire a concern on the bush blocks here?
On the City Plan's bushfire overlay, parts of Hymix Reserve carry a High Potential Bushfire Intensity rating and other parts a Medium one. A council report in November 2024 also found the Gaven North investigation area's suitability for more housing limited by environmental values and bushfire hazard, and that project was put on hold. Trees and shrubs near the house are worth cutting back off the roof and out of the gutters before the fire season.
Does the koala mapping cover Hymix Reserve?
It does. In the City Plan, the koala habitat areas overlay is mapped over Hymix Reserve. For a big gum on a neighbouring block, the koala and vegetation rules are looked at before any removal or heavy pruning is quoted, and if a koala is up the tree, the work stops until it has gone.
