SERVICES
Government and Municipal
Urban Amenity provides a range of Arboriculture services to the Government sectors. We have developed close relationships with local government areas across Melbourne to deliver projects and excellent outcomes. We have worked with City of Port Phillip, City of Hume, City of Wyndham, Brimbank City Council, Merri-Bek City Council, Yarra Ranges City Council, Melton City Council and others.
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SERVICES Government and Municipal
Urban Amenity have developed close relationships with local government areas across Melbourne to deliver projects and services and excellent outcomes.These services include:
Arborists reports
Our qualified arborists will visit your site to assess your trees and generate all arborist reports required by council.
Urban Amenity are a AFQ Level 5 Arborist and will generate and provide reports recommended by Australian Standard AS4970: 2009 Protection of Trees on Development Sites. These reports are:
- Preliminary Arboricultural Report
- Tree Impact Assessment Report
- Tree Protection Management Plan
Reports do not always end up with the removal of a tree as the best management process. Often a tree can be retained even if it has been assessed as a hazard. Management processes such as tree pruning, habitat creation, development of exclusion zones and cable bracing can be undertaken particularly when an important tree to the landscape needs to be retained.
Tree data collection
Urban Amenity works with many councils to collect tree data to support programmed tree works and strategies.
Our data collection work has enabled councils to program wire clearance programs, general tree maintenance programs, tree removal programs for trees that are hazardous or have a low useful life expectancy, capturing vacant areas for new tree planting and pest and disease management programs.
Streetscape and landscape enhancement plans
Have you got a new Park or street to beautify? Urban Amenity have provided several council areas with strategic design-based planting programs.
Tree management plans and policies
Got a tree policy? Is it outdated and needs updating? Urban Amenity are able to provide best practice management plans and policies. Our understanding of how other municipalities manage their trees is deep.
Through our benchmarking profiles we can adapt plans and policies to meet your needs, be that a target of canopy coverage or diversifying tree palates to minimise risk of disease, we understand your needs.
We also have expertise in community consultation in our team so we can design the community engagement plan to go with the policy development as well
Project management services
You don’t have tree management specialists available? Urban Amenity can provide staff to backfill a vacancy, project manage a landscape upgrade or undertake analysis for new service contracts. It's what we do, and we do it well.
Tree root investigations and reports
We can undertake non-destructive root excavation and complete reports for future tree root management. It can be challenging to understand how a tree affects infrastructure, and it is best to have a professional determine the best option for damage control.
Tree removal often results when engineers and plumbers point fault at trees. Most of the time, it is not the tree, and some focused root mapping can give you a clear culprit and a management technique to retain a tree and fix your infrastructure problem.
Pest and Disease management plans
Our staff are well versed on the many tree pest and disease problems and how to treat each. Elm Leaf Beetle is a common problem, and we have programs for monitoring and treating at the correct timing frequencies.
Onsite Milling
All the timber that comes out of tree removal is often considered as waste and usually ends up in a landfill or a fire pit. Urban Amenity can take your log wood and mill it up, ready to make a nice new piece of furniture, a new deck or even some nice pieces for some chopping boards.
One of our favourite pastimes in milling, and we have made some beautiful things, park seating in Port Melbourne, slab decking boards in Pascoe Vale, and hundreds of chopping boards being used across Melbourne homes.
