Robina
Tree removal in Robina
Tree lopping, removal and stump grinding in Robina, including the blocks backing onto its parks, lakes and fairways.
Tree work in Robina
Its own planning scheme, and a stadium on event days
Robina Central has its own planning history. A Queensland Act says the planning scheme for the site covered by the Robina Central planning agreement is the old Shire of Albert scheme together with the agreement, which has the force of law there, and that if the Albert scheme is superseded, the superseding scheme does not apply to the site. So on that site the citywide tree thresholds are not assumed, and whether a tree needs approval is confirmed with the City before it is quoted.
On event days at Cbus Super Stadium, the City activates the Robina Stadium Traffic Area, a two-minute Traffic Area where parking limits apply on every street inside it, signed or not. A truck and chipper need hours at the kerb, so jobs in those streets are booked around the event calendar.
Services in Robina
Park edges, lakes and event days
Tree lopping
Limbs cut back from the roof and gutters before the storm season.
Tree removal
Taken down in sections on lake and fairway blocks with no street access to the tree.
Stump grinding
Stumps ground out, with the machine walked in through the side gate.
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.
Robina questions
Gums over the fence, and the Glades
Whose are the gums behind the back fence?
Often the council's. The City of Gold Coast's Urban Forest tree records hold 2,482 gum trees inside Robina, more than under any other common name there, and most stand in its parks and reserves. For a home backing onto one, the job is usually the limbs, bark and leaf litter coming over onto the roof and gutters, and work on the tree itself is a request to council.
Can a tree beside the Glades lakes be reached by a truck?
Usually not. The Glades golf course encloses extensive longitudinal lakes west of Mudgeeraba Creek, so a tree on a block backing onto the fairways or the water is climbed and taken down in sections, with the timber carried back out through the property and nothing dropped into the lake.
