Avoca Beach
Tree lopping in Avoca Beach
Tree lopping, removal and stump grinding in Avoca Beach, from the blocks behind the beachfront pines to the streets around Heazlett Park and its remnant littoral rainforest.
Tree work in Avoca Beach
Pines from 1910 and a rainforest remnant
Two avenues of Norfolk Island and Cook pine trees at Avoca Beach are local heritage items in the council's planning scheme, one on the foreshore and one on Avoca Drive, opposite Heazlett Park. The council's tree exemptions do not apply to heritage items, so pruning or removing one of those pines needs separate heritage approval. The council-owned Norfolk Island pines on the beachfront reserve, from the surf club to Heazlett Park, were planted in 1910 and are recorded as an important landmark.
Heazlett Park also holds a council-owned Port Jackson fig that the old Gosford City Council register listed as remnant littoral rainforest, with new tuckeroos and figs to be planted to maintain the grove. Littoral rainforest is listed in NSW as an endangered ecological community, and trees that are part of one fall outside the council's exemptions, so a fig or tuckeroo beside the grove is identified before anyone cuts it.
Services in Avoca Beach
Salt wind, shifting sand and protected canopies
Tree pruning
Trees next door to pines planted in 1910 pruned with a tall, protected canopy above and salt-laden onshore wind allowed for in the quote.
Tree removal
Trees that have started to lean on beachfront blocks taken down in sections and lowered clear of the house.
Stump grinding
Ground out in the sand of the beachfront blocks, with the hole filled and levelled afterwards.
How it works
From the first message to a written quote
The council question is settled before any price, and nothing is booked until you have said yes to a quote in writing.
- 1
Tell us what the tree is doing
Where it stands, what it is close to and what you would like done about it.
- 2
A contractor comes to see it
A tree contractor who covers your suburb looks at the tree, the access and what is underneath it.
- 3
The council question is answered
Height, trunk size, distance from the house and the species decide whether a permit or an exemption applies.
- 4
You get it in writing
Scope, timber, stump and date on one page, and nothing is booked until you have said yes.
Avoca Beach questions
Erosion, the pines next door and storm damage
Why do foreshore trees need more care?
The council's southern foreshore redevelopment, announced in March 2018, set out a new and more substantial rock wall next to the rock pool to stabilise the foreshore and prevent further erosion. Trees along that stretch grow in shifting sand and salt-laden wind, with roots the sea can undermine.
Does a heritage pine next door change the job?
It does. A job on a neighbouring block keeps its machinery and drop zone clear of the avenue's roots and canopy, and anything on the pines themselves is left to the council.
What if a storm leaves a tree unsafe?
The council's risk exemption covers a tree with imminent, clear and immediate potential to harm after a sudden change in its stability, such as a split trunk or an uprooting. Where no arborist can be engaged in time, an urgent tree works application can be made.
