Norwell
Tree removal in Norwell
Tree work across Norwell's rural holdings, from removals far out on the paddock to stump grinding beside Norlake Park.
Tree work in Norwell
Holdings that run to many hectares, and sand under the park
Leaving out lots under 250 square metres, the City Plan's property boundaries give Norwell a median lot of 136,380 square metres, the largest of the Gold Coast suburbs counted the same way, its neighbours Pimpama, Ormeau and Jacobs Well among them. A tree on a holding that size can stand far back from the road. Getting to it means a long carry or a tracked machine across the paddock, and after rain the job waits for the ground to firm.
The City's soil association map shows sandy rudosols and podosols on quartz sands and clays of Pleistocene tidal delta deposits and sand dunes under part of Norlake Park, and notes that they may include acid sulfate soils. Trees on loose sand over wet ground send their roots out shallow and blow over more readily. Where acid sulfate soil may sit underneath, a stump is ground down instead of dug out, so the soil below is disturbed as little as possible.
Services in Norwell
Paddock distances, sandy soil and storm-felled oaks
Tree removal
Trees far out on a holding taken down where they stand, with the timber chipped on site rather than carted away.
Stump grinding
Stumps on the sandy ground near the park worked down in place, once the paddock is dry enough to cross.
Storm damage
Swamp oaks and paperbarks pushed over in wet, shallow ground cut up and cleared.
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.
Norwell questions
Swamp oak forest, and who looks after Norlake Park
What grows in Norlake Park?
The City's vegetation mapping shows swamp oak open forest on marine deposits in parts of the park, with paperbark and swamp oak forest on alluvium, and pink bloodwood, brush box and beach cypress woodland on the coastal sand. Swamp oaks and paperbarks root shallow in wet, low ground, so a big one on a property near the park can blow over in a storm. A lean that shows up after heavy rain is the time to have it looked at, and machinery is kept off the soft ground.
Who looks after Norlake Park?
The City does. Its open space records list Norlake Park as two parcels, both in the care of its natural areas conservation manager, and one of them, of about 89 hectares, carries the comment koala habitat acquisition program. Trees on the park side of a fence are the City's to manage, and work on a neighbouring property keeps to the private side.
