Tree removal laws in Western Australia
Western Australia has no blanket urban tree-removal law — rules depend on your council's local planning scheme and local laws, and some councils keep significant tree registers. Native vegetation clearing is regulated by the State. Check your council's planning scheme and any significant tree register.
Legal basis: Local Planning Schemes and local laws; Environmental Protection Act 1986 (native vegetation clearing).
Common exemptions
- Trees not listed on a significant tree register and not in a protected area (council-dependent).
- Dead or dangerous trees.
Rules that can override exemptions
- Council significant tree registers / planning scheme provisions.
- State native vegetation clearing permits.
- Federal EPBC Act.
Western Australia councils (137)
Pick your council for its specific tree-removal rules.
- Albany
- Armadale
- Ashburton
- Augusta Margaret River
- Bassendean
- Bayswater
- Belmont
- Beverley
- Boddington
- Boyup Brook
- Bridgetown-Greenbushes
- Brookton
- Broome
- Broomehill-Tambellup
- Bruce Rock
- Bunbury
- Busselton
- Cambridge
- Canning
- Capel
- Carnamah
- Carnarvon
- Chapman Valley
- Chittering
- Claremont
- Cockburn
- Collie
- Coolgardie
- Coorow
- Corrigin
- Cottesloe
- Cranbrook
- Cuballing
- Cue
- Cunderdin
- Dalwallinu
- Dandaragan
- Dardanup
- Denmark
- Derby-West Kimberley
- Donnybrook-Balingup
- Dowerin
- Dumbleyung
- Dundas
- East Fremantle
- East Pilbara
- Esperance
- Exmouth
- Fremantle
- Gingin
- Gnowangerup
- Goomalling
- Gosnells
- Greater Geraldton
- Halls Creek
- Harvey
- Irwin
- Jerramungup
- Joondalup
- Kalamunda
- Kalgoorlie-Boulder
- Karratha
- Katanning
- Kellerberrin
- Kent
- Kojonup
- Kondinin
- Koorda
- Kulin
- Kwinana
- Lake Grace
- Laverton
- Leonora
- Mandurah
- Manjimup
- Meekatharra
- Melville
- Menzies
- Merredin
- Mingenew
- Moora
- Morawa
- Mosman Park
- Mount Magnet
- Mount Marshall
- Mukinbudin
- Mundaring
- Murchison
- Murray
- Nannup
- Narembeen
- Narrogin
- Nedlands
- Ngaanyatjarraku
- Northam
- Northampton
- Nungarin
- Peppermint Grove
- Perenjori
- Perth
- Pingelly
- Plantagenet
- Port Hedland
- Quairading
- Ravensthorpe
- Rockingham
- Sandstone
- Serpentine-Jarrahdale
- Shark Bay
- South Perth
- Stirling
- Subiaco
- Swan
- Tammin
- Three Springs
- Toodyay
- Trayning
- Upper Gascoyne
- Victoria Park
- Victoria Plains
- Vincent
- Wagin
- Wandering
- Wanneroo
- Waroona
- West Arthur
- Westonia
- Wickepin
- Williams
- Wiluna
- Wongan-Ballidu
- Woodanilling
- Wyalkatchem
- Wyndham-East Kimberley
- Yalgoo
- Yilgarn
- York