Noraville
Tree removal in Noraville
Tree removal, pruning and storm clean ups in Noraville, from old garden figs and palms to the coral trees on suburban blocks.
Tree work in Noraville
A homestead garden of figs, palms and coral trees
The Noraville homestead is on the State Heritage Register, and its listing records a line of six mature Moreton Bay figs in the garden. They were about 12 m tall in 1914 photographs, which dates them to at least the 1860s and 1870s. Pruning or removing trees in a listed garden may need approval under the Heritage Act, and figs of that age have wide surface roots and heavy limbs that shape tree and stump work on the blocks next door.
When the last of the estate was divided in 1956-7, its old market garden was subdivided for housing. All that is left of it is a broken line of mature coral trees, one of them still inside the homestead's listed grounds. Coral tree is on council's Undesirable Species List, so pruning or removing one on a house block can be exempt when the work is done to the Australian Standard, but that does not cover the one in the heritage garden.
Services in Noraville
Brittle coral trees, old palms and storm timber
Tree removal
Coral trees on the old market garden blocks taken down a section at a time, with the stump ground out if the owner wants it gone.
Palm removal
Dead fronds and seed pods cleared from old palms, or a palm that has outgrown its spot removed.
Storm damage
Uprooted trees and split trunks cut into manageable lengths and cleared, with hanging limbs brought down first.
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.
Noraville questions
Storm damage, a leaning palm and cliff scrub
How hard did the 2017 storm hit Noraville?
Harder than most of the coast. In November 2017 council reported that the storm had caused major damage across the Central Coast, particularly in Noraville. Once the fallen timber is cleared, any damaged tree still standing over a house or a road is the one to have looked at.
Is a leaning old palm hard to take down?
It takes planning. The homestead's listing records a mature leaning Washingtonia palm whose height suggests it could date from about 1900, along with a row of Norfolk Island pines planted about 1960. A tall palm with a lean is dismantled from the crown down, into a drop zone set out before the first cut.
What native trees grow along the cliffs?
Low scrub more than tall timber. A heritage listing in the suburb records remnant and regenerating coastal banksia, tuckeroo trees and paperbarks along a stretch of cliff. Near an edge like that, the work is mostly trimming and selective removal from the landward side, keeping the native plants that hold the slope.
