North Gosford
Tree removal in North Gosford
Tree removal, pruning and stump grinding in North Gosford, near the old cemetery in Bradys Gully and on the blocks that border bushland.
Tree work in North Gosford
Headstones among the gums in Bradys Gully
The council's planning scheme lists the former cemetery at Bradys Gully as a local heritage item. That listing means development consent is needed to demolish, move or alter the site, subject to the plan's exceptions, and the council's tree exemptions do not extend to it. Any felling nearby is planned so that nothing comes down on the listed ground.
Inside the park, early stone and marble headstones are scattered through the gully among eucalypt trees, in an informal native setting. A limb hanging over one of those monuments is cut by a climber and lowered on a rope, and no truck, chipper or grinder is set up among the graves.
The State Heritage Inventory says areas of the old Bradys Gully cemetery outside the park are understood to contain numerous burials. On the blocks around the gully, a stump is ground shallow or cut low and left in place, and anything that would reach deeper waits on the council's heritage advice.
Services in North Gosford
Cemetery ground, tall gums and bush edges
Tree pruning
Overhanging limbs cut back from the house and dead wood taken out on blocks where the bush comes up to the fence.
Tree removal
Tall eucalypts brought down in sections, each piece lowered where a fence, shed or house sits below.
Tree removal permits
Heritage approval for a tree in or beside the old cemetery sought before the job is priced.
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.
North Gosford questions
Fire in the gully, and where prunings go
Is there a fire history in the gully?
There is. The heritage listing records that a devastating bushfire swept through the cemetery in the summer of 1916, and that a later bushfire came in the winter of 1964. A block beside bush with that history starts with a look at the bush fire prone land map.
Is the gully the only bush here that has burnt?
No: in September 2017, Coast Community News reported several scrub fires believed to be deliberately lit. They were in bushland at the eastern end of Plateau Road. On the blocks beside that bush, dead wood and leaf litter near the house come out first, once the 10/50 entitlement is checked for the parcel.
What can go in the green lid bin after pruning?
Prunings, twigs and branches cut short enough for the lid to close. The council's green lid garden vegetation bin does not take large branches, logs and stumps, and it is offered to properties east of the M1, so heavier timber from a gum is chipped on site or carted away.
