Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Oct 12, 2010 9:20 pm Hi Everyone, I would like to build a new two-story family house on my block in Mount Waverley, Vic in one year's time. I have two trees each with height between 10-12 metres, diameters around 200mm & circumference around 600mm in my front yard. As my property is in vegetation protection overlay, I need to appy for a Planning Permit to Monash City Council in a few months. I am not sure if they will be approved to remove. If they are not approved, I suppose I can still build a house? I suppose city council is more lenient on family house building restriction compared with building townhouses/units? Anyone has same experience before? Your share is much appreicated. thanks heaps Re: Tree Removal before building a new house 2Oct 12, 2010 9:31 pm Get an engineer to assess the root system. You may need barriers installed to ensure you don't get subsidence in the future. Re: Tree Removal before building a new house 3Oct 13, 2010 8:02 am As Eve Dweller said, you will need to look at a root barrier if the trees are within 3mt of your stumps or slab. The council won't care whether its a family home or 10 units (they;ll get more rates on 10 units) this is taken form the Monash council website " Significant vegetation: * has a trunk circumference greater than 500mm, (160mm diameter) at 1200mm height above ground, and * is higher than 10 meters. within the Vegetation Protection Overlay area. NOTE: This requirement relates to the whole property. Significant vegetation does not include: * All Willow trees * Radiata or Monterey pines * Evergreen Alders * Sweet Pittosporums * Desert Ashes " What type of trees are they? If you are worried about them dropping branches or falling over, you should speak to an arborist or tree lopper with a cert 4 qualification. Also be prepared that if they suspect you want to remove the trees to build, you may have to comply with a council issued plan to re landscape the block. The guy is building my retaining wall removed 6 trees and had to plant 90. Re: Tree Removal before building a new house 4Oct 13, 2010 9:53 am Hi Chris, My goodness! Are you saying you removed 6 trees and planted 90 trees requested by city council??? I am trying to build with Carslie Homes, Prominent 38. those two trees are about 10 metres visually. I can argue they are not higher than 10 metres and can be simply removed withour their prior approval. However it may incur a hefty fine if City council consider it as significant vegetation... Re: Tree Removal before building a new house 5Oct 13, 2010 10:26 am Hi Conrad, We just did this with Maroondah Council. Get an arborist to identify the tree's and, better yet, see if there is anything wrong with them. One of mine was rotten in the core and would have fallen over within a year. Both of the tree's on my block were common varieties that were not significant to the region and had no historical value to the neighbourhood - good wording to use. Council may/will tell you to do this if you just apply without an arborists letter. Have a plan already done up with your proposed Landscaping Plan for the new house showing that you have included Canopy tree's as replacements. Maroondah asked for 3 Canopy tree's in lieu of the 2 that we wanted to remove. Good Luck. SK Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34120 Handover 23 Dec 11 Squatting 21 Dec 11 Fixed 12 Oct 11 Plastered 31 Aug 2011 Framed 7 June 2011 Site Start 7 Feb 2011 Land Titled 18 Jan 2010 Land Deposit 25 Jun 2009 Building a fence now will help limit people dumping rubbish and soil on your property. Many houses in suburbia on small lots have fences up before a build. I moved into a… 1 4418 I thought this would be a popular question but I haven't been able to find any similar posts. Perhaps I'm wording my searches wrong? When you have car insurance and the… 0 6647 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair At a bit of a loss on this one - we're thinking the original owners never removed the protective laminate covers from their kitchen cabinets after installation and in the… 0 6378 |