Tree removal permits in Forrestfield
The City of Kalamunda lists four Bush Forever sites in Forrestfield: Dundas Road Bushland, Hartfield Park Bushland, Bougainvillea Avenue Bushland and Pioneer Park Bushland. Bush Forever aims to protect regionally significant bushland.
Kalamunda's fire notice tells owners to check with the relevant agencies before clearing any part of a property, especially Bush Forever or Aboriginal heritage sites. In WA, clearing native vegetation without a permit or an exemption is an offence, though the terms of a firebreak notice can affect whether a clearing permit is needed for the work it requires. Our bushfire clearing guide and WA permits page go further.
Arborists in Forrestfield: what's local
Homes south, industry north
Roe Highway splits the suburb, with houses to the south and industry to the north. The 241-hectare marshalling yard opened in stages from 1968 to 1973.
Hartfield Park
Beside its Bush Forever bushland, Hartfield Park holds a recreation centre, playing fields, an 18-hole golf course, an equestrian centre and a conservation park with a lake.
Woodlupine Brook
The brook's reserve on Strelitzia Avenue is on the Swan Coastal Plain in the Canning River catchment. Settlers named it for the heavily treed woods and lupin flowers they found.
Jarrah and marri
Florabase records jarrah and marri, both trees to 40 m, in the City of Kalamunda. See our gum trees guide for how they grow.
Arborists in Forrestfield: good to know
Kalamunda's earlier Tree Retention Policy was revoked, and a draft Local Planning Policy 33, Future Forest, went out for comment from 29 August to 24 October 2025. The City's page still shows the step of presenting it to Council as not done.
The draft's FAQ says it's aimed mainly at building and subdividing, and that removing a tree without permission may mean a penalty and a replacement tree. Because it's still a draft, ask the City what applies to your lot before a big tree comes out.
Bushfire clearing in Forrestfield
The City's 2026/2027 notice was due on 1 November 2026 and holds until 31 March 2027, across every part of the City, Forrestfield included. Trees or shrubs within 2 m of a building are pruned to no more than 2 m high, or back so they're 2 m from it, and trees over 5 metres in the 20 metre zone around each building are under-pruned up to 2 metres. Our Kalamunda page has the full detail.
Trees and power lines in Forrestfield
Keep at least 8 metres away and treat the line as live. Western Power takes reports, and the City says Western Power also prunes naturally occurring verge trees under its lines. If anyone's hurt, call 000 first.
Hiring an arborist in Forrestfield
If the block is near one of the Bush Forever sites, we'd ring the City before any clearing, fire work included, and ask what it needs from you. We'd have an arborist do the fire-notice pruning with clean cuts to the pruning standard rather than ripping branches off, and we'd keep the green waste covered and inside the borer quarantine area.