Palm Beach
Tree removal in Palm Beach
Tree removal, storm damage and stump grinding in Palm Beach, from the beachfront to the canal homes on lakes Awonga and Waidup.
Tree work in Palm Beach
Open swell on one side, canal lakes on the other
The City says Palm Beach is subject to an increase in wave energy, with less shelter from Snapper Rocks and a coastline that faces further east. Trees on the dune frontage take the salt spray and the onshore wind, and big seas can cut the sand out from under them. A frontage tree that leans or breaks after a coastal storm should be checked before the next one.
Northern Palm Beach, known in the 1960s as Pacific Beach, had a low-lying inlet off Tallebudgera Creek that by the middle of that decade had become lakes Awonga and Waidup, ready for a canal estate. Gardens around the lakes are often fill over a shallow water table, which keeps roots close to the surface, and a tree on a lakefront block is lowered in pieces back toward the street so nothing drops into the water.
Services in Palm Beach
Salt wind, sand and lakefront blocks
Storm damage
Leaning and broken frontage trees made safe after a big sea, with nothing dropped onto the dune.
Tree removal
Dismantled from the top where the house, the pool or the lake hems the tree in.
Stump grinding
Ground out in sandy ground, where the roots run wide rather than deep.
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.
Palm Beach questions
Tarrabora Reserve and the creek mouth
Who manages the trees in Tarrabora Reserve?
The City does. Tarrabora Reserve, along the banks of Currumbin Creek, holds saltmarsh, coastal dune systems, banksia woodland and closed forest, and the City carries out ongoing ecological restoration there. Its trees are not a homeowner's to prune or remove, so a branch or a leaning tree from the reserve is raised with the City.
Do sandy blocks near the creek mouth need anything different?
Sometimes. Banksias and other dune trees spread wide, shallow roots through loose sand, and one on a block near the creek mouth can lean or fall when that sand is undermined or waterlogged. A fresh lean after a wet spell is a reason to have it looked at.
