Urban Tree Solutions

Take more than ten per cent off a canopy around here and you may well need a council permit before a saw comes out. Urban Tree Solutions handles that paperwork across five Hunter councils, and Reily runs the business out of Newcastle. Our arborists are qualified and insured, we work to the current Australian Standards, and every job we do is covered.

We deal with Newcastle City Council, Lake Macquarie City Council, Maitland City Council, Port Stephens Council and Cessnock City Council. A tree that is native, significant or protected, one over three metres tall or 300 millimetres through the trunk, or a property that is heritage listed or sitting in a conservation area: those are the ones where the application matters. We inspect the site, talk to the council, prepare the arborist report and tree risk assessment, put together the photographs, site maps and canopy measurements, and help you lodge the lot.

Once that side is sorted the work itself is straightforward. We take out the hazardous trees, the overgrown ones and the ones simply planted in the wrong spot, and where a tree is staying our tree pruning and lopping brings the canopy back into shape and out of trouble. Stump grinding and stump removal clears up what the tree removal leaves in the ground, and the tall awkward palms get palm tree removal handled on their own terms.

Tree health assessments pick up disease and structural weakness before either turns into a failure. Catching it at that stage is cheaper and a good deal safer, and it often means the tree stays. On the bigger blocks we take on land clearing and mulching services, and whatever the job, the site goes back better than we found it.

Our emergency tree services run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so a tree down across a driveway at midnight gets a crew rather than a voicemail. We cover Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and the Hunter Valley, taking in Maitland, Cessnock, Gateshead, Caves Beach, Catherine Hill Bay, Nords Wharf, Silverwater, Eraring, Balcolyn, Cams Wharf, Awaba, Seahampton and Yarrawonga Park. Ring Reily or send an email and you will get a straight quote with nothing tacked onto it.