Killcare
Tree lopping in Killcare
Tree lopping, pruning and removal in Killcare, from the blocks beside Fletchers Glen to the bush edge.
Tree work in Killcare
Rainforest in Fletchers Glen, and a listed garden
Fletchers Glen, reached from Frazer Road, holds two rainforest species on Gosford City Council's old register of significant trees: ribbonwood and stinkwood. That makes the glen a moist rainforest pocket among the eucalypts. On the blocks beside it, fill, garden waste and runoff are kept out of the glen.
A garden on Araluen Drive is a local heritage item, and its State Heritage Inventory listing calls it a rare example of this type of garden landscape, with a distinctive early sandstone boundary wall and gate. Trees that form part of a heritage item fall outside the council's tree chapter, so pruning or removing one needs heritage approval, and the old wall and gate are protected while the work is done.
Services in Killcare
Glen edges, garden walls and roof lines
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.
Killcare questions
Rare glen trees and a fire on the record
Can a ribbonwood in the glen be trimmed from next door?
No. The register listed the ribbonwood in Fletchers Glen as council-owned and as rare trees for the district, and warned that pollution from adjacent development may cause future problems. A limb from the glen hanging over a fence is reported to the council rather than cut.
Is there a fire record for Killcare?
There is. NPWS fire history records a wildfire named Killcare that started on 4 February 1985 and burnt about 2.4 hectares. It was small, but it is reason enough to weigh a tree near the house as fuel and not only on its health, and any 10/50 clearing waits on what the RFS online tool says for that lot.
