Tree Preservation Order

A FAQ for the Tree Preservation Order may answer any questions you may have. An application for permission to remove or prune trees (pdf 74Kb) is necessary for any tree management on private land. For inspections of street trees or trees in reserves or parks, call Customer Services on 4232 0444.

Policy

The amended version of the Tree Preservation Order is adopted for the purposes of the new Kiama Local Environmental Plan 1996 with such Order to take effect upon the date of commencement of that plan.

General Tree Preservation Order applicable to all land within the Kiama area

Notice is hereby given that under the provisions of clause 8 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Model Provisions, 1980, as adopted by Kiama Local Environmental Plan 1996, the Council of the Municipality of Kiama has, by resolution, made a Tree Preservation Order with respect to any tree growing on any land within the area with the exception of:

1. any tree within land dedicated or reserved under the Forestry Act, 1916, as a State Forest or Timber Reserve
2. any domestic fruit tree, coral tree, rhus tree, privet tree and loquat tree.

Such order hereby prohibits without the written consent of the Council of the Municipality of Kiama the ringbarking, cutting down, topping, lopping, removing, injuring or wilful destruction of any tree which is situated:

1. within Zonings 7(b) - Rural Environmental Protection (Estuarine Wetlands), 7(d) - Rural Environmental Protection (Scenic) or 7(e) - Rural Environmental Protection (Hinterland) of Kiama Local Environmental Plan 1996
2. within the areas shown on Map 10 of Illawarra Regional Environmental Plan No. 1 which lie within the Kiama area
3. within ten (10) metres of any stream, creek or river which lies in the Kiama area
4. within the Kiama area but outside the areas specified in (a), (b) and (c) hereof and which meets any of the following criteria:

1. is three (3) metres or more in height
2. has a girth of 200 mm or more and a height of one (1) metre from the ground
3. has a branch span of three (3) metres or more.

The Order takes effect from the date of commencement of the Kiama Local Environmental Plan 1996.

Any person who contravenes, or causes or permits to be contravened, the provisions of the Tree Preservation Order shall be guilty of an offence. All requests for the Council's consent to the ringbarking, cutting down, topping, lopping, injuring or removing of any tree specified in this order may be made in writing to the General Manager, Kiama Council, Council Chambers, Manning Street, Kiama.