Body Corporate & Strata Tree Management

If you’re on a committee or managing strata, tree work sits somewhere between annoying and genuinely risky. The trees are common property, the responsibility for them is yours, and nobody on the committee is an arborist. So you’re stuck making calls about trees you can’t assess, hoping the contractor turns up, does it properly, and doesn’t leave a mess for residents to complain about. We take that whole headache off you. We work with body corporates and strata across the Gold Coast, from small townhouse blocks to large gated communities.

Free Tree Health Assessment For Your Complex

We’ll walk the property with a qualified arborist and give you a written assessment of every significant tree, at no cost. You get a list of what’s there, what condition each tree’s in, what needs attention now, what needs watching, and roughly what the priorities cost. It’s the document you need to actually make a decision at a committee meeting instead of deferring it again. No obligation, take the report and get three other quotes off the back of it if you like.

Why this matters more for common property

  • Approval is almost always needed. Trees on common property are treated differently to trees on a private lot, and council approval is generally required before removal. Getting that wrong is a fine against the body corporate, not the contractor.

  • Duty of care sits with the committee. If a limb comes down on a resident’s car, a visitor or a child, the question is what the committee knew and did about it. A dated arborist assessment on file is the difference between a manageable situation and a very unpleasant one.

  • Records matter at handover. Committees turn over and managers change. Work that isn’t documented effectively didn’t happen, and the next committee starts from zero.

  • Residents notice everything. Fronds in the pool, leaves in the gutters, a branch over a balcony. Scheduled maintenance stops most of it becoming a complaint.

What we do for complexes

  • Scheduled palm maintenance, fronds and seed pods off before they drop into pools, onto footpaths and over cars. The single most common recurring job in Gold Coast complexes.

  • Programmed pruning, clearance from buildings, balconies, driveways, lighting and security cameras, plus deadwood out of the big trees before storm season.

  • Removals, including trees in courtyards and internal spaces where access is through the complex and there’s no room to drop anything.

  • Storm response, priority attendance for complexes we already look after.

  • Arborist reports for council applications, insurers, disputes and long-term planning.

  • Long-term tree management plans across three to five years, so the work’s budgeted rather than turning up as a special levy.

What to expect working with us

One quote, itemised, so the committee can approve some things and defer others, never a single lump sum with no breakdown. Notice before we arrive, so residents aren’t woken by a chipper at seven on a Saturday, with confirmations and reminders sent automatically. Photo records of every visit, before and after, on file for the committee and the next one. Insurance and documentation ready to go: certificate of currency, safe work method statement and any site induction handled before we turn up, not on the morning. If your manager runs a contractor compliance portal, send us the link and we’ll get onboarded before the first job. And we plan around residents: cars in the way, pool access, school pick-up, garbage days.

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Who We Work With

Townhouse and villa complexes. Gated communities and resort-style developments, particularly through Hope Island and Sanctuary Cove. High-rise and mid-rise with landscaped ground floors and podium gardens. Retirement villages. Schools and childcare centres, where tree risk is taken seriously for obvious reasons. If you manage multiple properties, talk to us about handling the lot on one schedule. It’s cheaper and far less work for you

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. We walk the property, assess every significant tree and give you a written report with priorities and rough costs, no obligation.

Almost always for removals. We check the mapping and handle the arborist report and application side.

Yes. Send us the link and we’ll sort the certificate of currency, SWMS and inductions before the first job, not on the day.

Yes, and it’s cheaper and less work for you. One schedule, itemised per property, documented for each committee.