Learn more about vegetation on your property, with information on everything from landscaping to vegetation damage and removal.

The aims of these instruments are to protect vegetation from inappropriate damage, protect significant trees, and to maintain, protect and enhance the regions biodiversity, ecological values, habitat values, landscape character, cultural heritage and amenity.

Using the Table of Assessment and the Vegetation Management Code, residents can often determine themselves whether a permit will be required to carry out vegetation damage.

See Council’s fact sheet on Responsible Tree Management for further information about vegetation clearing.