Tweed Heads South is the large residential spread behind the border strip, and with Tweed Heads West it's some of our busiest local ground. It's mature suburban streets where trees planted small in the seventies are now well over the house, a lot of units and townhouses where the trees are common property, and canal estates with tight access for a truck and chipper.
Tweed Heads South is where most of the border’s actual living happens: the big residential streets, the units, the canal estates, all set back from the tourist strip. With Tweed Heads West right beside it, this is some of the most constant work we do. The trees are classic mature-suburb trees, planted small decades ago and now genuinely large, often crowding a fibro-and-brick home or leaning toward the lines.
A lot of the work here is units and townhouses, where the tree is common property and the job needs a body corporate sign-off before anyone touches it. The canal and waterfront estates bring the opposite problem: a straightforward-looking tree, but no room to get the truck and chipper near it. Both are everyday jobs for us, and we plan the access and the paperwork up front.
The one thing that catches people out is the border. You can stand in Tweed Heads South and look across at Queensland, but your tree is under Tweed Shire (NSW), with its own thresholds and protected categories. We confirm which pathway applies before quoting, every time, so there are no surprises once the work starts.