COUNCIL TREE PRESERVATION

Listed below are the forms required for each council preservation requirements, please select your council to download the appropriate form.

Canada Bay Council

City of Sydney

Holroyd Council

Hornsby Council

Hunters Hill Council

Kuringai Council

Lane Cove Council

Manly Council

Mosman Council

North Sydney Council

Parramatta City Council

Pittwater City Council

Ryde Council

Warringah Council

Woollahra Council

 

CITY OF SYDNEY COUNCIL
TREE PRESERVATION ORDER


Action Arbor Tree Services provide amongst other services, stump grinding, tree removal and tree pruning (sometimes referred to as tree lopping), as well as consultancy by qualified arborists within the City of Sydney Council area.


City of Sydney Council covers the following suburbs:

Annandale (parts)
Erskineville
Redfern
Alexandria
Eveleigh
The Rocks
Barangaroo
Forest Lodge
Rushcutters Bay (parts)
Beaconsfield
Glebe St Peters (parts)
Camperdown
Haymarket
Surry Hills
Centennial Park (parts)
Millers Point
Sydney CBD
Chippendale
Moore Park
Ultimo
Darlinghurst
Newtown (parts)
Waterloo
Darlington
Paddington (parts)
Woolloomooloo
Dawes Point
Potts Point
Zetland
Elizabeth Bay (parts)
Pyrmont

Below is a brief overview of the Tree Preservation Order within City of Sydney Council. Please note this document should be used as a guide only.

To view complete Tree Preservation Order for this council please CLICK HERE

City of Sydney Councils Tree Preservation Order allows for the following work to be carried out without consent or permission:

  1. Removal of a dead/dying or dangerous tree
  2. Work carried out on a tree by the Council, State Emergency Services or a person acting on either of their behalf in response to an emergency.
  3. Removal or pruning in accordance with AS4373 Pruning of Amenity Trees to allow electricity supply.
  4. Removal of pruning in accordance with AS4373 Pruning of Amenity Trees to provide 0.5 metre clearance of insulated electricity supply cables.
  5. Tree pruning or removal approved by a current Development Consent issued by the City.
  6. Control, removal and eradication of any species declared a noxious plant within the City under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1993.

Exempt tree species within City of Sydney Council are as follows:

African Olive Olea europaea var. Africana
Loquat Eriobotrya japonica
Banana Musa spp
Mulberry Morus spp
Camphor Laurel Cinnamomum camphora*
Norfolk Island Hibiscus Lagunaria atersonii
Celtis/Hackbery Celtis spp.*
Oleander Nerium oleander
Citrus Species (All varieties)
Privet Ligustrum spp
Cocos Palm Syagrus romanzoffianum
Rhus Tree Toxicodendron succedaneum
Cotoneaster Cotoneaster glaucophyllus
Rubber Tree Ficus elastica
Cootamundra Wattle Acacia baileyana
Tree of Heaven Ailanthus altissima
Coral Tree Erythrina x sykesii*
Wild Honey Locust Gleditsia triacanthos
Evergreen Alder Alnus jorullensis
Castor Oil Plant Ricinus communis
False Acacia (not cvs) Robinia pseudacacia
Willows Salix spp.
Liquidambar Liquidambar styraciflua*

The Tree Preservation Order exemption list does not apply to the following:

  1. Any tree with a height equal to or exceeding five metres
  2. A single trunk species, a trunk circumference of 300mm at a height of one metre above ground level
  3. A multi-trunk species, a trunk circumference exceeding 100mm at a height of one metre above ground level

Tree Preservation Order - click here

Application Form - click here

Fact Sheet Download - click here

 

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