Bell Post Hill
Tree removal in Bell Post Hill
Tree removal, pruning and stump grinding in Bell Post Hill, with each job set around the City's street trees and the tall gums in its parks.
Tree work in Bell Post Hill
Manna ash on the streets and sugar gums in the parks
Bell Post Hill holds 99 of the 351 manna ash in the City of Greater Geelong's public tree dataset, all of them street trees, and no other suburb has as many. A manna ash on a nature strip belongs to the City, and any pruning or removal of one is a matter for the council, raised as a request. For a private tree in the yard it fronts, the chipper and the stump grinder are kept out from under the ash's canopy and off its root zone.
The same dataset shows that here, 16 of the 20 public trees over 20 metres are sugar gums, and all 20 stand in parks. Sugar gums are big, heavy eucalypts that can shed large limbs, and these ones are the City's as well. On a lot that backs onto one of those parks, a job is planned with the drop zone, the rigging and the machines set clear of the crowns and roots of the gums over the fence.
Sources: Trees dataset, City of Greater Geelong (Geelong Data Exchange), manna ash (retrieved 14/10/2026); Trees dataset, City of Greater Geelong (Geelong Data Exchange), tall park trees (retrieved 14/10/2026); Schedule to the Heritage Overlay, Greater Geelong Planning Scheme (retrieved 13/10/2026); Morongo Presbyterian Girls' School, now Kardinia International College, Victorian Heritage Database (retrieved 14/10/2026)
Services in Bell Post Hill
Park edges, nature strips and heritage ground
Tree removal
On a lot backing onto a park, the tree is cut down in short lengths so nothing drops among the City's tall gums.
Tree pruning
Big, dense conifers such as old cypresses thinned and reduced, with the cut limbs lowered on ropes.
Stump grinding
Stumps near a manna ash on the nature strip ground down, with the grinder kept off the street tree's roots.
What it costs: tree removal cost, stump grinding cost
Compared: removal, lopping or pruning, stump grinding or stump removal, council tree rules compared
How it works
From the first call to a clear garden
Nothing happens without a written quote you have agreed to.
Tell us about the tree
Call or send the form with the tree and what is worrying you.
A contractor comes to see it
A local tree contractor looks at the tree, the access and whatever sits underneath it, because a quote off a photo misses the things that change the job.
A written quote
The quote sets out the scope, what happens to the timber and the stump, and the date. It is the contractor's quote, and nothing starts until you accept it.
The work and the clean up
On the day the tree is dealt with as quoted, the green waste leaves on the truck and the lawn is raked.
Bell Post Hill questions
Tree controls and cypress rows at the former Morongo
Does Kardinia International College have heritage tree controls?
It does. The Greater Geelong heritage overlay schedule applies tree controls to HO1727, Kardinia International College, the former Morongo. Within that heritage place, lopping or taking out a tree generally needs a planning permit from the City first, and the work is given a date once that permit is in hand, not before.
Can the old cypresses along the college frontage be cut back?
With a permit first, where they still stand on the college grounds. The council's heritage citation for the college, now about a quarter of a century old, recorded three rows of cypress trees along its boundary with Ballarat Road as an important reminder of the school's early rural location, and that frontage may look different today. Old cypresses grow big and dense, with heavy limbs, so those limbs come down in sections, and traffic management is set up wherever the work reaches the road edge.
