Surfers Paradise
Tree removal in Surfers Paradise
Tree lopping, removal and palm work in Surfers Paradise, including the canal islands and the gardens along the river.
Tree work in Surfers Paradise
Canal islands made from sand and swamp
Chevron Island began as Goat Island, a land-linked sand mass, and was recontoured by sand pumping, while MacIntosh Island to the north, named Paradise Waters, was engineered the same way. Trees there stand in pumped sand beside the canals, where roots can stay shallow and spread wide, and a stump grinder works through abrasive sand.
South of Chevron Island, the Isle of Capri was recontoured, subdivided and sold on the site of a sugar cane farm and dairy on swampy farmland. Ground like that can stay soft close to the surface, so a heavy machine on a lawn goes on mats.
Services in Surfers Paradise
Palms, canal blocks and soft ground
Palm removal
Coconut and cabbage tree palms cleaned or taken down from the top, clear of cars and paths.
Tree removal
Taken down in sections on canal blocks where there is no room to drop a tree.
Stump grinding
Ground out through pumped sand, with mats down where the lawn is soft.
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.
Surfers Paradise questions
Coconuts and cabbage tree palms
Why do coconut palms need regular work?
Because the nuts and fronds come down hard. The City of Gold Coast's Urban Forest tree records hold 116 coconut palms inside Surfers Paradise, and those are only the council's. In a garden or a body corporate's grounds, the nuts, flower stalks and dead fronds come off before they land on a path, a driveway or a parked car.
What about the tall cabbage tree palms?
The council's tree records list 191 cabbage tree palms by that name inside Surfers Paradise, more than any other palm named in the records there. They grow tall on a single trunk with spiny leaf stalks, so clearing the crown of a tall one usually takes a climber or an elevated platform.
Coconuts over the driveway?