Palmdale
Tree removal in Palmdale
Tree removal, pruning and stump grinding in Palmdale, for the blocks and gardens along the bunya pine avenue.
Tree work in Palmdale
An avenue that began as a driveway
The State Heritage Inventory describes about sixty bunya pines that form the original driveway to Palmdale House. Bunya pines grow very tall and drop large, heavy cones, so a job under the avenue starts by marking out a zone beneath each crown that nobody stands in, and roadside work is set up with traffic control.
Council's planning scheme lists the Palmdale Road bunya pines as a local heritage item, and they stand in the road reserve rather than on private land. That leaves the trees themselves in council's hands, with heritage approval needed before any of them is pruned or removed, while a job on a neighbouring property keeps trucks, chippers and stockpiles off their roots.
Services in Palmdale
Working beside a listed avenue
Tree pruning
Dead wood and low limbs cut from garden trees on the blocks either side of the avenue.
Tree removal
Garden trees near the avenue taken down in sections, so nothing heavy lands under the listed pines.
Stump grinding
Stumps ground out below the lawn, with the chips raked into the garden or taken away.
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.
Palmdale questions
A rare avenue, and the grounds of the house
Why are the bunya pines listed at all?
Because of the avenue they form together. The State Heritage Inventory calls the formal avenue linked to Palmdale House a rare civic scaled gesture, and says such an extensive cultural planting is rare within Wyong. Its value is in the line as a whole, so losing even a single tree leaves a gap in it.
Are the trees around Palmdale House covered too?
Yes. The heritage schedule in council's planning scheme names Palmdale House including grounds, so the listing takes in the land around the house as well as the building. A tree in those grounds sits outside council's everyday exemptions, and pruning or removing it waits on heritage approval.
