Upper Coomera

Tree removal in Upper Coomera

Name: Gold Coast Tree and Stump
Telephone: 0439 021 022

Tree removal, stump grinding and covenant checks in Upper Coomera, from the acreage to the river flats.

Tree work in Upper Coomera

Covenants, fire mapping and very hard timber

The City's environmental covenants map shows 146 environmental protection covenant areas lying wholly inside Upper Coomera, along with nine landscape buffer covenant areas. A covenant registered on a title can limit removing vegetation inside its area. So before a tree near the back fence is quoted for removal, the title and the covenant map are checked, and the work may need the City's consent.

The bushfire hazard area overlay in the City Plan marks parts of the Upper Coomera Conservation Area as Very High Potential Bushfire Intensity, and other parts as High or Medium Potential Bushfire Intensity or Potential Impact Buffer. Homes on the edge of that bushland are worth preparing before each fire season, with the trees and shrubs on the block pruned back from the house and gutters and the low limbs lifted. The conservation area's own trees are council land, and not the owner's to cut.

Inside the same conservation area, council vegetation mapping shows spotted gum and ironbark woodland on metasediments. Both are tall, very hard and heavy hardwoods, so a big one near a house is usually taken down in sections on ropes rather than felled. On that rocky country the stumps often sit in shallow, stony ground, where a grinder can strike rock.

Services in Upper Coomera

Hardwood, covenants and stony ground

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.

Upper Coomera questions

Bigger blocks and the river frontage

We are on one of the bigger blocks. How does that change a tree job?

Mostly it adds distance. The suburb takes in rural/residential subdivisions between Old Coach Road and the Pacific Motorway, and on those larger blocks the trees are often big remnant eucalypts set well back from the street. The job can mean a long carry or a tracked machine across the grass, more green waste to chip, and soft ground left alone in wet weather.

The river runs past the bottom of our yard. Is that ground a problem?

Sometimes. The Coomera River rises in the Lamington plateau and flows through Upper Coomera before entering a coastal flood plain, and it forms the suburb's southern border. On the terraces and flats beside it the ground stays soft after rain and banks can slump, so a riverbank tree can lean or be undercut, heavy machines stay off saturated ground, and cut timber is never left where floodwater could carry it.