Paradise Point
Tree removal in Paradise Point
Palm work, storm damage and tree removal in Paradise Point, on canal blocks, waterfront lots and the streets behind them.
Tree work in Paradise Point
Swamp country turned canal estate
Before its subdivision in the 1950s, Paradise Point was a quiet fishing spot, reached by a track through swampy land, studded with eucalypts. Older blocks can still sit on damp, soft soil that keeps roots shallow and spreading, so a big eucalypt there may be less firmly anchored in a storm than the same tree on higher, drier ground.
West of the boat harbour, the original grid of streets was replaced by a canal estate, which Queensland Places calls a solution to an otherwise flood-prone subdivision. Water sits close to the surface on that low ground, so trees root shallow and wide and can blow over in wet, windy weather. On a waterfront block the tree often stands between the house and the canal, which limits where a chipper or stump grinder can go.
By the 1990s, lobbying to protect the mangroves at Jabiru Island had brought about the Phil Hill Environmental Reserve. Trees on blocks beside it are worked from the private side only, and nothing is cut, dropped or dragged into the reserve.
Services in Paradise Point
Palms, canal frontages and storm weather
Palm removal
Tall palms cleaned or taken down from the top, with every frond kept out of the canal.
Storm damage
Waterfront trees that have shifted in the wind off the Broadwater made safe and cleared.
Tree removal
Brought down toward the street on canal blocks, so nothing lands in the water.
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.
Paradise Point questions
Wind off the Broadwater, mangroves and date palms
Do trees on the waterfront take more wind?
They do. Paradise Point sits where Coombabah Creek meets the Coomera River and the river meets the Broadwater, so it has water on three sides. Tall palms and gums on the waterfront take that wind straight off the water, and they are worth checking for loose fronds, end-heavy limbs and any lean before storm season.
Can the mangroves in front of a waterfront block be trimmed for a view?
Not simply for a view. The boardwalk in Phil Hill Environmental Park runs above the water and through mangroves out to the Coomera River, and the City describes those mangroves as feeding, spawning and nursery sites for crabs, fish and prawns. Queensland protects mangroves as marine plants, so tree work near the water keeps cut timber and machines off them.
Who trims the date palms?
The council does, for its own trees. Its Urban Forest records list 89 date palms in Paradise Point, more than any other tree it counts there, and work on one of those goes through the City. A date palm holds its dead fronds and heavy fruit stalks until they are cut away, and the long spines at the frond bases mean a climber or an elevated platform does the trimming.
