Arborist Inspection HAS Updated V · OPW22/0022

Abstract
                                   Australian Tree Contractors & Arboricultural Consultants
        P O Box 1411, Noosaville DC Qld 4566 
                                                         W: www.australianconsultarborist.com.au
                                                         Managing Trees in The Urban Environment
                                                 
Abstract
                                   Australian Tree Contractors & Arboricultural Consultants
        P O Box 1411, Noosaville DC Qld 4566 
                                                         W: www.australianconsultarborist.com.au
                                                         Managing Trees in The Urban Environment
                                                 
Arborist Inspection
     
Arborist Inspection
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[email protected]

Arborist Inspection
Client: The Hastings Beach House
Site: 30 Hastings St Noosa Heads
Date of Inspection: 16/8/21

Table of Contents
Professional Disclaimer
Qualifications
Client Information
Scope Of Works
Method of Inspection
Site Map
Tree Details
Photos of Trees Requiring a Mitigation Response with Contractor Note

Professional Disclaimer:
All trees are inspected on a basic level and ground based and should a higher level of inspection be required this will be identified and required to complete a mitigation response on individual trees.
All trees are assessed on “normal weather conditions “and weather event outside this will be deemed an abnormal weather event and as this assessment results a higher level of risk than the initial assessment due to forces applied.
After any weather event where there have been severe forces applied to the assessed trees, we strongly recommend a reinspection to keep your report current as this report prior to any event will be deemed defuncted until reinspected.

Although Australian Tree Contractors & Arboricultural Consultants PTY Ltd (I 614 266 125) (ATCAC) use all due care and skill in providing you with the information made available in this Report, to the extent permitted by law ATCAC otherwise excludes all warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied. To the extent permitted by law, you agree that ATCAC is not liable to you or any other person or entity for any loss or damage caused or alleged to have been caused (including loss or damage resulting from negligence), either directly or indirectly, by your use of the information (including by way of example, Arboricultural advice) made available to you in this report. Without limiting this disclaimer, in no event will ATCAC be liable to you for any lost revenue or profits, or for special, indirect, consequential, or incidental damage (however caused and regardless of the theory of liability) arising out of or related to your use of that information, even if Tree Logic has been advised of the possibility of such loss or damage. This disclaimer is governed by the law in force in the State of Queensland, Australia. This Report is addressed to you and may not be distributed to, or used or relied on by, another person without the prior written consent of ATCAC. ATCAC accepts no liability to any other person, entity, or organisation with respect to the content of this Report unless that person, entity or organisation has first agreed in writing to the terms upon which this Report may be relied on by that other person, entity, or organisation. Report Assumptions The following qualifications and assumptions apply to the Report: • Any legal description provided to ATCAC is assumed to be correct. Any titles and ownership of any property are assumed to be correct. No responsibility is assumed for matters outside of ATCAC’s control. • ATCAC assumes that any property or project is not in violation of any applicable codes, ordinances, statutes or other local, state, or federal government regulations. • ATCAC shall take care to obtain all information from reliable sources. All data shall be verified as far as possible; however, ATCAC can neither guarantee nor be responsible for the accuracy of the information provided by others not directly under ATCAC’s control. • No ATCAC employee or contractor shall be required to give testimony or to attend court because of the Report unless subpoenaed or subsequent contractual arrangements are made, including payment of an additional fee for such services. • Loss of the report or alteration of any part of the report not undertaken by ATCAC invalidates the entire Report and shall not be relied upon by any party. • The Report and any values expressed therein represent the opinion of ATCAC’s consultant and ATCAC’s fee is in no way conditional upon the reporting of a specified value, a stipulated result, the occurrence of a subsequent event, nor upon any finding to be reported. • Sketches, diagrams, graphs, and photographs used in the Report, is intended as visual aids, are not necessarily to scale and should not be construed as engineering or architectural drawings, reports, or surveys. • Unless expressed otherwise: I) The information contained in the Report will cover those items that were outlined in the project brief or that were examined during the assessment and reflect the condition of those items at the time of inspection; and ii) The inspection is limited to a visual examination of accessible components without dissection, excavation or probing unless otherwise stipulated. • There is no warranty or guarantee, expressed or implied by ATCAC, that the problems or deficiencies of the plants or site in question may not arise in the future. • All instructions (verbal or written) that define the scope of the Report have been included in the Report and all documents and other materials that the ATCAC Consultant has been instructed to consider or to consider in preparing the Report have been included or listed within the Report. • The Report is limited to the matters stated in it and does not apply by implication to any other matters. • To the writer’s knowledge all facts, matter, and all assumptions upon which the Report proceeds have been stated within the body of the report and all opinion contained within the report will be fully researched and referenced and any such opinion not duly researched is based upon the writer’s experience and observations.
General References
•	Australian Standards AS 4373 – 2007 Pruning of amenity trees.
•	AS 4970-2009 – Protection of trees on development sites
•	Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane – Queensland Museum
•	Fraser Coast website and Maps/overlays
•	Evaluating Tree Defects – A Field Guide by Ed Hayes, Second Edition
•	Body Language of Trees – Research for Amenity Trees, Claus Mattheck
•	Smiley E. Thomas, Nelda Matheny, and Sharon Lilly April 2012. Tree Risk Assessment: Levels of Assessment
•	Matheny Nelda and Jim Clark Feb 2009. Tree Risk Assessment: What we know (and What We Do Not Know)
•	The use of the TRAQ as trained by the International Society of Arboriculture

Qualifications:
Our Consulting Arborist is Kurt Brown, and he has over 30 years in field experience ranging the breadth of Australia and New Zealand, both as a consultant and as a AQF Level 3 Climbing Arborist and as such brings a more rounded and unique perspective to his inspections. This is evident in the inspections and data collection and how this is translated into the report format and recommendations.
Kurt also has attained the highest of the relevant qualifications for inspecting trees from all aspects relating to asset and people protection and tree health and structure and much more.
Qualifications are as follows
AQF Level 3 Arboriculture SCIT
AQF Level 5 Arboriculture TAFE East Coast
ISA TRAQ Certified Arborist
Other Relevant Information,
Queensland Arboricultural Association Qualified Member 2018 – Current
Arboriculture Australia Member
Queensland Arboricultural Association Executive Member 2012 to 2017
President Queensland Arboricultural Association 2014 to 2016
Past President Queensland Arboricultural Association 2017
Arboricultural Australia Member 2014 to current
International Society of Arboriculture Member 2014 to current

Client Information

Scope Of Works
To on a basic level assess the trees for suitability for retention on the back of the legal issue with Bay Village. We have identified all the trees here below have a very basic description and is purely just to identify for the purpose of the application to Noosa Council to change the landscape DA , this will also be coupled with a comprehensive replanting plan to future proof this development.

Site Map

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Trees identified to be removed
Tree 1 Lot 12
Syzygium spp
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village

Tree 2 Lot 12
Syzygium spp
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village

Tree 3 Lot 12
Ficus macrophylla
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village

Tree 4 Lot 10 and 11
Ficus spp
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village

Tree 5 Lot 10
Schefflera actinophylla
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village

Tree 6 Lot 10
Syzygium spp
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village

Tree 7 Lot 9
Melaleuca quinquinervia
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village

Tree 8 Lot 9
Hibiscus tillaceus
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village
Tree 9 Lot 9
Hibiscus tillaceus
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village

Tree 10 Lot 7
Syzygium spp
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village

Tree 11 Lot 7
Ficus macrophylla
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village

Tree 12 Lot7
Cupaniopsis anacardioides
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village

Tree 13 Lot 5
Syzygium spp
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village

Tree 14 Lot 5
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Tree 15 Lot 5
Ficus spp
Reason for the Removal
As with the bay village issue the same issue is relevant to the owners here with root incursion into plumbing both above and below ground and the costly repair associated as well as the trip hazards with the roots also which becomes a OH and S issue.

Tree 16 Lot 5
Syzygium spp
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village

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Tree 17 Lot 3
Syzygium spp
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village

Tree 18 Lot 3
Syzygium spp
Reason For Removal
This tree is on the western boundary as is part of the legal action due to root incursion into the Bay Village

Tree 19 Lot 4
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Tree 21 Lot 13
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Easement Tree Eastern Boundary
Cupaniopsis anacardioides
Reason for the Removal
This tree has a spreading canopy and root plate and there are already signs of damage on the wall and neighbours’ property, not a suitable species in the limited space.

Lot 2. Tree #48
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Reason for Removal
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Lot BC. Tree #47
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Lot BC. Tree #46
Ficus spp
Reason For Removal
As with the bay village issue the same issue is relevant to the owners here with root incursion into plumbing both above and below ground and the costly repair associated as well as the trip hazards with the roots also which becomes a OH and S issue.

Lot 23. Tree #45
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Lot 23. Tree #44
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Lot BC. Tree #43
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Lot BC. Tree #42
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Lot 20. Tree #41
Syzygium spp
Reason For Removal
This tree is in a to confined space and the root system concerns with plumbing and roof protection from leaf and fruit drop.

Removal Cost $350 plus GST
Stump Grinding $80 plus GST		Lot 21. Tree #39

Lot 20. Tree #36
Syzygium spp
Reason For Removal
This tree is in a to confined space and the root system concerns with plumbing and roof protection from leaf and fruit drop.

Lot 19. Tree #35
Syzygium spp
Reason For Removal
This tree is in a to confined space and the root system concerns with plumbing and roof protection from leaf and fruit drop.

Lot 19 & 20 split cost. Tree #34
As with the bay village issue the same issue is relevant to the owners here with root incursion into plumbing both above and below ground and the costly repair associated as well as the trip hazards with the roots also which becomes a OH and S issue.

Lot BC. Tree’s # 32 & thirty-three
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Lot BC. Tree #31
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Lot 18. Tree #30
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Lot 18. Tree #29
As with the bay village issue the same issue is relevant to the owners here with root incursion into plumbing both above and below ground and the costly repair associated as well as the trip hazards with the roots also which becomes a OH and S issue.

Lot 17. Tree #27
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Lot 16 & 17 split cost. Tree #26
As with the bay village issue the same issue is relevant to the owners here with root incursion into plumbing both above and below ground and the costly repair associated as well as the trip hazards with the roots also which becomes a OH and S issue.

Lot 16. Tree #25
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Lot 14. Tree’s #23 & #24
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Lot 14. Tree #22 Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Lot 13. Tree #21
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Weed species and concern with bats and vermin attracted due to fruit drop and the trip issue from the fruit and seed

Lot 11. Tree #10

Warm regards,
Kind regards,
Kurt Brown
Sunshine Coast Tree Works
M 0431 586 371 E [email protected]

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Australian Tree Contractors & Arboricultural Consultants
        P O Box 1411, Noosaville DC Qld 4566 E: [email protected] M: 0431586371
                                                         W: www.australianconsultarborist.com.au
                                                         Managing Trees in The Urban Environment

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