A Planning Permit is often required if you wish to remove or prune trees or:
- other Native vegetation on your land;
- Non-native species of vegetation if the property is within a Heritage Overlay or Environmental Significance Overlay;
- if there are Planning Permit conditions or other restrictions or agreements that apply to your property.
It is important you talk to Council before you remove any vegetation.
Your application will have the best chance of being approved if:
- you demonstrate there is no other option but to remove the trees/vegetation.
- the overall impact of the vegetation removal on the surrounding landscape and ecology of the area is minimal.
- tree/vegetation removal has been minimised, with good quality vegetation and significant, healthy trees being successfully retained.
- you are willing to work with Council to develop a revegetation plan to provide replacement planting that achieves a long-term environmental gain (this can be done through our biodiversity offsets program).
- The revegetation plan has been prepared by a professional consultant after talking to Council and includes detailed information from an arborist or ecologist.
The following link will provide more information on exemptions:
Exemptions from requiring a planning permit to remove, destroy or lop native vegetation