Marcus Hill
Tree removal in Marcus Hill
Tree removal, pruning and lopping in Marcus Hill, from heritage-listed lots to dry rural blocks off the Bellarine Highway.
Tree work in Marcus Hill
An old school site, a post office block and their trees
Two places in Marcus Hill carry tree controls in the Greater Geelong heritage overlay schedule: the former Marcus Hill State School site on the Bellarine Highway, and a house that was once the post office. At both, a tree cannot be removed, destroyed or lopped until a planning permit is granted, so the address is checked on the heritage map first and the council's lead time goes into the quote.
The school site's 1996 heritage citation recorded a large palm tree, a large deciduous tree and three pencil pines in a row, near where a building once stood. Any of them still standing are covered by those controls, and a tall palm or pencil pine on a highway corner needs a climber and traffic management rather than a quick fell.
Sources: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay, Greater Geelong Planning Scheme (retrieved 13/10/2026); Former Marcus Hill State School site (HO1541), Victorian Heritage Database (retrieved 15/10/2026); Former post office residence, Marcus Hill (HO1554), Victorian Heritage Database (retrieved 15/10/2026); Ocean Grove fire is timely reminder for bushfire safety (November 2024), Bellarine Times (retrieved 15/10/2026)
Services in Marcus Hill
Heritage trees, highway corners and fire-season work
Tree lopping
Heavy limbs shortened on old pines and gums once any heritage permit has been issued.
Tree removal
Pines, palms and gums taken down in sections, with traffic control set up when the work is beside the highway.
Tree pruning
Deadwood and split limbs cut out of big rural trees before a strong wind brings them down.
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.
Marcus Hill questions
Corner-block pines and the November grass fire
Are the old post office trees protected?
If they still stand, the heritage controls on the house cover them. Its 1996 heritage citation described the former post office on a large corner block with mature pines and gum trees and various outbuildings, so removing or lopping one of those trees waits on a planning permit. Big pines on a corner block come down in sections with rigging, clear of the road verges and the outbuildings.
Is grass fire a risk in Marcus Hill?
It is: in November 2024 a rapidly spreading grass fire ignited in Marcus Hill. It threatened the Oakdene estate in Ocean Grove and prompted a Watch and Act message before brigades held it to around three hectares. Dry grass carries fire quickly across rural lots, so the useful tree work before summer is lifting canopies, taking limbs back from roofs and sheds, and chipping and carting the debris away rather than leaving piles to dry out.
