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Tree removal and tree lopping in Logan

Tree removal, pruning and stump grinding in Logan, matched to a local arborist.

Logan City Council controls tree clearing through overlays in the Logan Planning Scheme 2015, so the quickest first step is looking up your block's overlays in the Logan PD Hub.

  • We match you with the local arborist who does your kind of job.
  • Tell us the job once, and the arborist who takes it calls you.
  • Storm damage and fallen trees flagged urgent.

Tree job in Logan?

What needs doing?

If anyone is in danger, call 000. For storm damage to your home, call the SES. Then tell us the job.

Only one local arborist gets your number.

An arborist in a helmet and climbing harness going up a rope beside the trunk of a large leafy tree

Matched by the job, not just the postcode

A big gum over a roof, a stump and a council report are different jobs, so the job comes first.

Only one local arborist gets your number.

Your contact details go to one arborist for your job, so you deal with one person.

Storm jobs flagged urgent

Pick storm damage and the arborist sees it marked urgent. If anyone is in danger, call 000 first.

Council rules before the cut

Many councils protect bigger trees. The permit guides cover every state, so you can check first.

What happens next

A local arborist calls you.

Tell us the job

  1. Tell us the job

    What the tree needs and your postcode. A few taps.

  2. We pass it on

    To a local arborist near your postcode.

  3. They call you

    They talk it through, usually see the tree, and quote in writing. You decide.

Tree removal permits in Logan

Across the river in Brisbane, a local law protects trees. Logan does it through its planning scheme, mainly the Biodiversity areas overlay and the Waterway corridors and wetlands overlay.

Council's map sorts native vegetation into two kinds. Primary vegetation is all native vegetation. Secondary vegetation is native trees taller than 4 metres with a trunk at least 31.5 centimetres around, measured 1.3 metres off the ground. A native habitat tree is one at 220cm around or more, or with a hollow, and council's definitions count dead trees as well as live ones.

Inside a mapped waterway corridor, council says all native vegetation clearing needs approval. Where clearing isn't covered by the exemption criteria, it takes an Operational Works application.

Tree removal in Logan: good to know

  1. Find the property

    Search the address in the Logan PD Hub and open the interactive mapping tool.

  2. Open the overlays

    Look for Primary or Secondary Vegetation Management Areas, covenants, the OM-02.02 Biodiversity corridor (which takes in koala corridors) and OM-14.00 Waterway corridors and wetlands.

  3. Read the criteria, then ask

    Council publishes a summary of its exemption criteria. Read it, but ask council how it applies to your tree before anything is cut.

  4. If an application is needed

    It has to give the reasons, carry the owner's consent, and include a site plan showing which trees go and which stay, with each tree's species and size and any nests or hollows.

Tree removal in Logan: what's local

A big, mixed city

The City of Logan covers 958 square kilometres. The 2008 amalgamation more than tripled it, bringing in Beenleigh and Eagleby from the Gold Coast and Jimboomba and Logan Village from Beaudesert Shire. Suburban yards and rural land sit under the same scheme. See Beenleigh and Jimboomba.

Two rivers

The Logan and Albert rivers both run through the city, and creeks feed them all over. A tree near any mapped waterway is the one to check most carefully.

Koala corridors and koala habitat

The biodiversity corridor overlay includes koala corridors. Koala Habitat Areas under the state's Planning Regulation 2017 are outside council's tool: those questions go to the State Assessment Referral Agency. Bushland around the Daisy Hill Koala Centre gives a sense of what's still here.

Townhouses and bodies corporate

Council's decision tool doesn't advise on vegetation a body corporate manages in a community title scheme. Talk to the body corporate first. See strata and commercial tree work.

Wires

Logan is on the Energex network. For a tree on a street line, call Energex, or 000 if anyone is hurt.

Hiring an arborist in Logan

We'd screenshot the overlay list from the PD Hub before ringing anyone. If a vegetation management area or a corridor shows up, we'd get council's view in writing before booking the work. Then we'd hand that screenshot to the arborist and ask for a quote that names each tree's species and size, since any clearing application needs those details anyway.

Tree removal and tree lopping in Logan: common questions

Does Logan protect dead trees?

It can. Council's definitions of native trees and native habitat trees cover them whether dead or alive, and a hollow makes a tree a habitat tree. Check the overlays and ask council before a dead tree is cut.

My block is under 5,000 square metres. Does that matter?

It's one of the exemption criteria, but it doesn't reach the Rural residential, Rural, Emerging community or Environmental management and conservation zones, the Acreage precinct, koala corridors, the waterway overlay or remnant endangered ecosystems. Don't assume: ask council about your block.

Who checks state-protected vegetation in Logan?

Council notes the state's Vegetation Management Act 1999 protects remnant and regrowth vegetation, and refers those questions to the state. Our Queensland permits page covers the state layer.

Need an arborist in Logan?

Pick the job and give your postcode, and a local arborist calls you.

Tree job in Logan?

What needs doing?

Only one local arborist gets your number.

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Sources

Tree rules change, so check with your council before anything is cut. How we write and check these pages.