Tree Survey Sydney

Tree Survey is a consulting arboriculture practice operating across the entire state of New South Wales from its Sydney head office, with further offices covering the Illawarra, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast, Newcastle and Forster on the Mid North Coast. This is a reports and data practice rather than a cutting crew: the work is assessing tree populations, quantifying risk, and producing the arboricultural documentation that consent authorities, developers and asset managers rely on. Every consultant holds a minimum of AQF Level 5 in arboriculture, many hold AQF Level 8, and the team carries both the Tree Risk Assessment Qualification (TRAQ) and Quantified Tree Risk Assessment (QTRA) credentials, which is a deeper bench of qualification than most consultancies put on a site.

Development work is the practice's core. An arboricultural impact assessment is a detailed and comprehensive report that reflects the potential impacts of development on trees within and adjacent to a proposed development site, and it is the document a council will usually ask for first. A tree protection plan generally follows the arboricultural impact assessment and provides details on tree protection mitigations for the trees proposed to be retained. Earlier in the pipeline, a preliminary tree assessment gives a comprehensive survey of the trees within a designated site or parcel of land, and these reports are often used in the earliest stages of development planning, before a design is locked in and a retained tree becomes an expensive argument.

Tree risk assessment is a detailed analysis of the risk posed by a single tree or a group of trees within a specific site, and it is often carried out at schools, universities, holiday resorts, parks and other public spaces where the duty of care is highest and the failure consequences are people rather than fences. Tree surveys provide a comprehensive assessment of a specified tree population with the aim of establishing base data on what is actually there. A tree management plan takes that survey further and guides the future use, management and maintenance of a site. Project arborist services cover the inspections, supervision, monitoring and certification of trees during a development project, which is the on-site half of the job once construction starts.

What separates Tree Survey from a standard reporting consultancy is the data side. GIS and spatial analysis gives the practice the ability to capture and analyse both spatial and geographic data, and a purpose-built tree database stores, retrieves, displays, sorts and summarises the information relating to tree assets. For councils, universities and anyone holding thousands of trees, that turns a one-off survey into a managed asset register rather than a PDF in a drawer. The practice also offers expert witness services drawing on its specialised knowledge, and priority and emergency turnaround is available on reports where a deadline demands it.

Clients range from private landowners and developers through to councils, schools, universities and public land managers right across NSW, taking in Sydney, Wollongong and the Illawarra, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast, Newcastle and the Hunter, and the Mid North Coast around Forster. To discuss a report, a survey or a project arborist engagement, call 0425 536 670 or use the enquiry form on the website, which is answered with a quote within 24 hours.