Wongawallan
Tree removal in Wongawallan
Tree removal, stump grinding and pruning across Wongawallan, from covenant areas on big blocks to homes beside Timberview Reserve.
Tree work in Wongawallan
Covenant areas on big blocks, and a reserve mapped for landslide
Wongawallan's blocks are big. The City Plan's property boundaries give it a median lot of 21,980 square metres, a figure that leaves out lots below 250 square metres. The City's environmental covenants map also shows 79 environmental protection covenant areas lying wholly inside Wongawallan, plus four landscape buffer covenant areas. A covenant can restrict what vegetation comes out inside its boundary, so on a block that carries one, the title is read before a tree is priced, and removal inside it can need consent from the City.
Parts of Cresthill Drive Reserve are mapped as Very High and High landslide hazard on the City Plan's landslide hazard overlay, with other parts at Moderate. On the City's vegetation mapping, the reserve holds sub-tropical to warm temperate vine forest beside white mahogany open forest, some with tallowwood and grey gum. Ground that can slip changes the method: the tree is let down in pieces, not dropped downhill, the machines stand on firm, level ground, and the stump is often ground in place so its roots keep binding the soil. Where vines tie the crowns together, they are cut free first so one falling limb does not drag others with it.
Services in Wongawallan
Covenant checks, slip-prone ground and tall pines
Tree removal permits
Covenant areas on the title looked up before anything inside one is quoted for removal.
Tree removal
Hoop pines over a house taken down from the top in sections, rather than felled across a slope.
Stump grinding
Stumps on slip-prone slopes ground flat rather than pulled, so their roots keep the soil in place.
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.
Wongawallan questions
Hoop pines over the fence, and Timberview's fire mapping
Can the council's hoop pines be cut back from a roof?
That is a request to the City. Its Urban Forest records, last edited in 2021, hold 127 hoop pines inside Wongawallan, more than any other tree recorded there, ahead of brush box and flame trees. A hoop pine inside your own boundary is yours to manage, and because it grows tall on one heavy trunk, it usually comes down from the top in sections.
How is Timberview Reserve mapped for bushfire?
The City Plan's bushfire hazard area overlay maps Timberview Reserve in Wongawallan as Very High Potential Bushfire Intensity, with High, Medium and Potential Impact Buffer areas also touching the reserve. A house that backs onto it is prepared on the private side: dead wood out, lower branches raised and the gutters kept clear of overhang before the fire season, while the reserve's own trees are left to the City.
