Native vegetation

Cleaning up or building on your property? Careful—that native vegetation may be protected.

Maintaining a property requires all sorts of different tasks – but we urge residents to contact Council before removing or trimming any native vegetation.

Native vegetation includes trees, shrubs and even grasses and herbs on the ground. And in the Australian environment can look “messy” – this is perfectly natural. Healthy native vegetation may have a mix of leaf litter, mosses, grass tussocks, trees and shrubs of various sizes. 

In fact, some of the most rare or threatened vegetation types do not include trees at all, such as native grasslands, wetlands and alpine regions.