The Entrance
Tree lopping in The Entrance
Tree lopping, pruning and removal in The Entrance, in the town centre and on the bungalow streets.
Tree work in The Entrance
Listed pines and a bungalow heritage area
The council's planning scheme lists a boat shed and Norfolk Island pines on The Entrance Road as a local heritage item. Any pruning or removal of those pines goes through council's heritage process, not the usual tree exemptions.
In 2011 the old Wyong Shire Council recommended a Heritage Conservation Area at Oakland Avenue, The Entrance, to protect a number of significant single storey bungalows. It is now in the planning scheme, which requires consent, with some exceptions, to alter a tree inside a heritage conservation area. Council's tree exemptions do not apply there either, so on those blocks even a light prune starts with council's heritage officer.
Services in The Entrance
Heritage blocks and town centre trees
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.
The Entrance questions
Shade trees, and a tree for Anzac Day
Can the shade trees in the town centre be cut back?
Not as a private job. The tuckeroos on the corner of Victoria Avenue and The Entrance Road are council street trees that shade pedestrians, and in November 2016 council investigated when it believed some had been deliberately poisoned. Work on a property nearby keeps chemicals and machinery away from their roots.
What about the memorial tree at the primary school?
The NSW War Memorials Register records a memorial tree with a plaque on a sandstone block at The Entrance Primary School, dedicated on Anzac Day 2002. A tree like that is cared for rather than replaced, so any work near it is careful pruning, with its root zone and the plaque block protected, and only with the school's agreement.
Do the listed pines change anything next door?
They can. A quote for a neighbouring block leaves the listed pines out, and nothing is stacked on or driven over the ground under their canopy.
