Umina Beach
Tree lopping in Umina Beach
Tree lopping, removal and stump grinding in Umina Beach, on the deep sand between the bay and the beach.
Tree work in Umina Beach
A woodland found in three small places
Umina Coastal Sandplain Woodland is a low woodland of bangalay and rough-barked apple, and the NSW Scientific Committee records it from three small areas at Umina Oval, McEvoy Oval and Umina High School. A tree in or beside one of those remnants is checked before anyone quotes taking it out.
The council reported in August 2025 that banksias in the woodland near Umina Oval are coming to the end of their life and failing. Old banksias in back yards age the same way, and a failing one is safer pruned or taken down before it drops a limb.
Erosion at Ocean and Umina beaches was drastically exacerbated in April 2015 by a coastal storm, and the beach goes through long spells of cyclical beach erosion and accretion. Trees on the dune edge can be left with their roots exposed after a big swell.
Services in Umina Beach
Sand, banksias and the dune edge
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.
Umina Beach questions
The register, and the sand
Are any of the trees in the shopping centre protected?
Some are on the register. The old Gosford council's significant tree register listed the brush box street trees along West Street in the shopping centre, and a grey she oak elsewhere in the suburb as remnant vegetation threatened by road widening and drainage works. Those are the council's to look after.
Does the sandy ground make a difference?
It does. Much of the peninsula is sandy soils of the Woy Woy soil landscape. Stumps grind out quickly in sand, but a big tree has less holding its root plate when that sand is soaked.
