Kingsholme
Tree removal in Kingsholme
Tree removal, pruning and stump grinding for Kingsholme acreage, up to the edge of the Kingsholme Section of the Wongawallan Conservation Area.
Tree work in Kingsholme
Acreage among the estates, and a reserve mapped for slips
Kingsholme's lots are far bigger than Ormeau's. Counting only lots of 250 square metres or larger, the City Plan's boundary data gives Kingsholme a median lot of 7,824 square metres, against 671 in Ormeau. That often leaves room to bring a tree down in big pieces well clear of the house, though the truck can end up a long way from the trunk.
On the City's environmental covenants map, 99 environmental protection covenant areas lie wholly inside Kingsholme. Covenants sit on titles, and inside one, cutting vegetation can need the City's agreement, so the title search comes before any quote for a tree on covenanted ground.
Stage Coach Reserve carries spotted gum and ironbark woodland on the City's vegetation mapping, with broad-leaved white mahogany and Queensland stringybark open forest, both on metasediments. The landslide overlay in the City Plan marks parts of Stage Coach Reserve in Kingsholme as High landslide hazard and other parts as Moderate. Spotted gum and ironbark are among the hardest eucalypt timbers, so one growing beside the reserve comes down in short lengths on ropes, and on a slope the pieces are lowered, not rolled, with the stump ground rather than pulled so the bank keeps its roots.
Services in Kingsholme
Hard eucalypt, title searches and rainforest trees
Tree removal
Spotted gum and ironbark near the house lowered in short lengths, with a chipper and chains made for hard wood.
Tree removal permits
Titles searched for a covenant before any tree on covenanted ground is priced.
Tree pruning
Doughwoods and maples inside the boundary lifted clear of roofs, gutters and driveways.
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.
Kingsholme questions
Council doughwoods, and fire mapping on the conservation land
Can a council doughwood hanging over the roof be pruned?
Put the request to the City, because a council tree is the City's to prune. In its Urban Forest tree records, as last edited in 2021, Kingsholme has 149 pink doughwoods, the most of any named tree there, ahead of kauri pines, water gums and Queensland maples. The same species growing inside your boundary are yours to manage.
Is the conservation area behind Kingsholme homes mapped for fire?
Yes, some of it at the Very High level. The City Plan maps parts of the Kingsholme Section of the Wongawallan Conservation Area at Very High Potential Bushfire Intensity on its bushfire hazard area overlay, and other parts at High or Medium, with Potential Impact Buffer areas touching it. The work that falls to a neighbouring owner is on their own trees: thin and lift the lower growth and keep limbs off the roofline before the fire season, while the conservation area's trees remain the City's.
