Tree removal permits in Panania
Wikipedia says Panania was built mostly after World War II with modest fibro bungalows, and many have since become bigger homes or two-storey duplexes. Every one of those projects runs into the same question: does the tree in the yard stay or go?
Canterbury-Bankstown's DCP needs a permit to dig inside a protected tree's tree protection zone, as well as to remove it. That zone is the area around a tree kept clear of building work so its roots survive. Trenches, footings and a new driveway inside it can all be a permit matter.
Where a tree comes out as part of wider development, NSW Planning says it goes through the development application, not a separate tree permit. So raise the trees with your designer early, while moving a footing is still easy.
Arborists in Panania: what's local
Between the motorway and the river
Panania has the M5 and Milperra to the north and Picnic Point to the south, where the Georges River bushland and the riverside bush fire focus area begin.
A safer place close by
The bush fire plan listed Bruce Park on Victor Avenue as a Neighbourhood Safer Place when it was approved. The RFS website has the current list, so check it before fire season.
A heritage fountain
The Nurse Schwarzel Fountain on Anderson Avenue is on council's heritage list. Work affecting a heritage item goes through a development application, so ask council before touching trees on that site.
Mess won't carry an application
Dropping leaves, fruit or small dead twigs is what trees do, in council's view, and won't usually justify taking one out. If a neighbour's tree is messy, that's a pruning conversation.
The wire into the house
In Ausgrid's area you clear your own tree's growth near the service wire up to the boundary. Ausgrid says trimming within three metres of its lines is only for trained workers under the SafeWork NSW code.
Tree jobs you can do yourself in Panania
You can
- Ask the builder to fence the tree off before machines arrive, and keep skips, bricks and soil off the root area.
- Photograph the tree before work starts, so any damage is obvious later.
- Water it through dry spells while the site is open.
- Decide who will lodge the Before You Dig Australia enquiry before anyone digs.
Leave to an arborist
- Marking out the tree protection zone so it goes into the plans.
- Root investigation where a footing has to sit close to the tree.
- The arborist report council or the certifier asks for.
- Removal, once approval is in place.
Hiring an arborist in Panania
We'd get an arborist on site before the designer finishes, so the tree protection zone shapes the plan instead of the other way round. If the tree has to go, we'd fold it into the development application rather than chasing a separate permit later. And we'd keep room in the new yard for the replacement trees council usually asks for.