Kingscliff
Tree removal in Kingscliff
Tree removal, storm damage and stump grinding in Kingscliff, on the New South Wales side of the border, from the beachfront to Cudgen Creek.
Tree work in Kingscliff
A fig in the roadway, and a beach that needed a rock wall
Kingscliff is in New South Wales, so its trees come under Tweed Shire Council rather than the City of Gold Coast. The town has a Moreton Bay fig in the roadway of Marine Parade, with a concrete roundabout built at its base. The state's heritage inventory says it was already a sizable tree in 1920, and a fig of that age carries heavy limbs over a root plate that spreads well past its crown. A tree or stump being worked on nearby is planned so that nothing cuts into those roots.
The beachfront has a history of its own. Tweed Shire Council's coastal studies include a report written after severe and continued erosion of Kingscliff beach from 2009 to 2011. Coastal hazard studies that started in 2000 found that a more permanent rock wall was needed to protect the surf club, the holiday park, the bowls club, nearby roads and private property. A tree in sand that storm seas have cut into can be undermined from the seaward side, so a leaning one is checked at the roots before anyone climbs it or ties a rope to it.
Services in Kingscliff
Sand, sea wind and the shire's own rules
Tweed tree work
Each Kingscliff job checked against Tweed Shire's declared vegetation rules, which differ from the Gold Coast's.
Storm damage
Hung-up limbs brought down first after a blow off the water, then the rest cut up and carted away.
Stump grinding
Stumps ground out of sandy beachfront yards, with the hole backfilled once the roots are gone.
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.
Kingscliff questions
The roundabout fig, the osprey nest and a different council
Who looks after the fig on the roundabout?
Tweed Shire Council. The Kingscliff Fig Tree Roundabout is listed in Schedule 5 of the Tweed Local Environmental Plan 2014 as a heritage item of local significance. It stands in the road reserve, so pruning it or cutting its roots is the council's decision and never a private job.
Does the wind off Cudgen Creek matter for a tall tree?
It can. In November 2016 Tweed Shire Council reported that the osprey nest beside Cudgen Creek, raised on a pole to 19 metres, had been damaged by wild weather again, the second time in three months. A tall tree on an open block near the creek takes that same weather, so a cracked limb or a fresh lean after a storm is worth a look before the next one.
Are the tree rules the same as on the Gold Coast?
No. Tweed Shire protects certain trees in its non-rural areas as declared vegetation, and size alone can bring a tree in: any tree, native or non-native, with a diameter at standard height equal to or greater than 40 cm. So a big old exotic in a Kingscliff yard can be protected even though it is not a native.
