Significant and Regulated Trees Assistance Scheme (Australia)

The aim of the Significant and Regulated Trees Assistance Scheme is to encourage the retention and protection of large trees that make an important contribution to their neighbourhoods by helping landowners with tree maintenance costs on their properties. The City of Port Adelaide Enfield recognises the many benefits that mature trees bring to their community in terms of scenic amenity, habitat provision, streetscape appeal, shading, and cooling effects.

With this in mind, they are encouraging eligible individuals and businesses to apply for grants to help maintain significant and regulated trees on their properties.

Funding Information

• A reimbursement of up to $1,000 for tree maintenance on private land is available to eligible applicants. An additional $1,000 (making a total of $2,000) is available to eligible applicants that receive a Centre link benefit or hold a Low Income Health Care Card (evidence required).

Eligible Activities

• Eligible maintenance activities include:
  • Pruning of the tree crown or branches (to remove dead or diseased wood, or branches at risk of structural failure)
  • Pest treatments (to manage damage from insects, beetles, or borers)

Eligibility Criteria

• Any non-government landowner in the City of PAE (whether an individual or a business) can apply. A Strata Corporation, Body Corporate or similar entity is also eligible to apply for works on common land.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Reimbursements will not be made for:
  • Applications which are incomplete, or not made through the Council’s platform
  • Works deemed by Council to be inappropriate or excessive
  • Works on trees that are not considered by Council to make an important contribution to the character or amenity of the local area
  • Works undertaken by persons other than qualified arborists/tree companies
  • Applicants who are in arrears on rates, or have any outstanding monies owed to the City of Port Adelaide Enfield (e.g. unpaid fines)
  • Arborists or contractors who are not:
    • adequately insured to undertake the nominated works
    • suitably qualified
    • listed as an entity on the Australian Business Register
  • Works performed on any of the following:
    • A regulated tree that is not of the genus Eucalyptus, Corymbia, Angophora, or Agonis.
    • A tree that is not significant or regulated according to the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016
    • A tree species declared under Part 9 of the Landscape South Australia Act 2019
    • A palm tree.

For more information, visit City of Port Adelaide Enfield.