Dandenong Ranges Tree Removal
Tall mountain ash trunks rising out of tree ferns in Sherbrooke Forest

Tree removal across the Dandenong Ranges and foothills

Removal, pruning, storm damage and stump grinding on steep, tall-timbered hill blocks. Tell us the job and a local arborist rings you back.

We connect you with a local arborist who works in the hills.

Ask for a quote

Sherbrooke Forest. Photo: Nick Carson, CC BY 3.0

What needs doing?

How it works

  1. Tell us the jobYour suburb, what needs doing, and a photo if you have one.
  2. A local arborist rings youWe pass your request to an arborist who works in the hills. They talk the job through with you.
  3. You get a quoteThen you decide whether to go ahead.

How close to the house?

Each planning overlay lets you clear vegetation close to a building without that overlay's permit, out to a set distance. Your block can sit under more than one overlay, and other rules can still apply, so check your property report before anything is cut.

10 m6 m4 m2 m
Drawn to scale around a 12 m by 9 m house. The dashed ring is a state rule; the solid rings are council overlays.
2 m
Vegetation within 2 m of a building. The townships (Belgrave, Upwey, Tecoma, Monbulk, Mount Evelyn, Montrose), the erosion overlay (Kalorama, Sassafras, The Patch, Macclesfield), and Knox's overlays at The Basin and Upper Ferntree Gully.
4 m
Vegetation within 4 m of a building. The ranges core: Olinda, Kallista, Kalorama, Sassafras, Belgrave Heights, Belgrave South and Mount Dandenong.
6 m
Vegetation within 6 m of a home, on a lot under 0.4 ha. Cardinia's hills: Emerald, Cockatoo, Gembrook, Clematis and Avonsleigh.
10 m
Any vegetation, trees included, within 10 m of a home built or approved before 10 September 2009. Anywhere in a Bushfire Prone Area, under the state's 10/30 rule.

Get a free property report from VicPlan to see which overlays cover your block.

Checked 6 October 2026 against Planning Victoria: bushfire vegetation removal, Yarra Ranges Council: removing a tree on private land, Knox City Council: tree removal and pruning and Cardinia Shire Council: vegetation removal.

Suburbs we cover, by council

Yarra Ranges
Olinda, Mount Dandenong, Kalorama, Ferny Creek, Tremont, Sherbrooke, Kallista, The Patch, Monbulk, Silvan, Belgrave, Belgrave Heights, Belgrave South, Selby, Upwey, Tecoma, Macclesfield, Montrose, Mount Evelyn
Cardinia
Clematis, Avonsleigh, Cockatoo, Gembrook, Nangana
Knox
The Basin, Ferntree Gully
Maroondah
Kilsyth South
On a council boundary
Sassafras (Knox or Yarra Ranges), Menzies Creek (Cardinia or Yarra Ranges), Emerald (Cardinia or Yarra Ranges), Upper Ferntree Gully (Knox or Yarra Ranges), Kilsyth (Maroondah or Yarra Ranges). Your property report says which council is yours.

Ask for a quote

Tell us where you are and what needs doing. We pass it to a local arborist who works in the hills. They ring you back to talk about the job.

What's the job?

How tall the tree is, how close to the house, or whether you can get a truck in.

A photo of the whole tree and one of what's around it help with the quote.

Your name, number, what you write and your photos reach us by email and go on to a local arborist who works in the hills, and to no one else. We keep a note that a request came in, with the time, the page, the suburb and the job, so we can count them. Privacy.

Ask for a quote