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Who we help
The tree advice Council can rely on.
We work for Councils across Victoria: on contractor panels, on the reports that get tested, and on the matters that reach VCAT. Independent assessment from a consultancy that has worked on the Council side of assessment and knows what a decision needs to address.
Why Councils instruct us
Experience from within the Council
Experience as the assessing officer
Our principal spent close to two decades inside Local Government, in planning and vegetation roles at Bayside, Kingston, Boroondara and Cardinia, and helped write the overlays, Local Laws and significant tree registers reports that are now checked against. We assess a site the way Council will.
Independent and reliable
We act for Councils and for the applicants they assess. The finding reads the same either way, which is why it survives objection and holds at Planning Panels, Standing Advisory Committees and VCAT.
Experience across Victoria
More than 4,100 project sites in 60 of Victoria's 79 Councils, and expert evidence at VCAT more than 45 times since 2004. Whatever challenge is in front of you, we have likely seen it before.
What we do for Councils
From a second opinion to the Tribunal
The work Councils most often need from an independent arborist, at the standard an objector or the Tribunal will test.
Independent review and expert evidence
A peer review of an applicant's tree report, or expert evidence at VCAT in the format and to the standard the Tribunal expects.
Explore the service →Tree risk assessment
Defensible risk ratings for the trees that the Council has a duty of care over, with inspection programs that can be relied on after an incident.
Explore the service →Strategy and advisory
Tree policy, procedure and strategy for the organisation, above the level of one tree or one site.
Explore the service →GIS mapping and data collection
Tree inventories and spatial asset data, collected and mapped in-house and built to hand back into your systems.
Explore the service →Trusted across Victoria
On Council panels, and across Victoria
We are on the contractor panel for a number of Councils, and have worked for many more across the State.
Councils we have worked for across Victoria, and on the contractor panel for several.
Need an independent arborist Council can rely on?
Whether it is one report to review, evidence for a hearing, or a place on a Council panel, talk to us about what you need.
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