Tree removal in Badger Creek
Badger Creek is farms and bush between Healesville and Woori Yallock, with Coranderrk and the sanctuary inside its boundary. One farm overlay covers most of it.
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Ask for a quoteYarra Ranges National Park, near Warburton. Photo: Miffymaws, CC BY-SA 4.0
The rule in Badger Creek
Badger Creek has no town zoning in our sample: all 129 points were farm, bush, reserve or catchment, and 117 of them were under SLO6. On a Badger Creek block, then, the council's permit usually covers native vegetation of any size and any tree over:
- 1.1 m
- around the trunk, 1.3 m above the ground. About a 35 cm trunk.
- 4 m
- Exempt within 4 m of a lawfully built building. Branches over it can be cut to 4 m clear.
- 10 m
- The 10/30 rule. Every point was in a Bushfire Prone Area, and most in the Bushfire Management Overlay. The conditions.
SLO6 has no exemption for regrowth, so wattles and young gums in a paddock need its permit. Dead vegetation is exempt, but ESO1, at 82 points, keeps a permit for a standing dead tree over 1.3 m around. On a farm-sized block the state's native vegetation clause applies as well.
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Checked 23 October 2026 against Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule 6 to Clause 42.03 (SLO6), Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule 1 to Clause 42.01 (ESO1), Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 52.12 (bushfire protection exemptions) and Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 52.17 (native vegetation).
Coranderrk and the sanctuary
The former Aboriginal reserve of Coranderrk is now the Coranderrk Bushland, and its station track, water race and sawmill site carry heritage tree controls. So does the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary, better known as Healesville Sanctuary; MacKenzie Cottage there is on the Victorian Heritage Register. A block next to either can share its overlays, so check the report.
Checked 23 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Badger Creek, Victoria and Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule to Clause 43.01 (Heritage Overlay).
The creek and the weir
The creek may be named for the wombats early settlers called badgers. Other accounts trace it to a Woi Wurrung word, badjurr, or to a horse of the Ryrie brothers that got bogged in it. The weir in the Badger Creek reserve was built in 1909 and feeds the Silvan Reservoir.
An erosion overlay came up at 17 of our points. Where one applies, it needs a permit for any vegetation except a tree 50 cm or less around, anything within 2 m of a building, dead vegetation where the ground is reinstated, and lopping for a tree's health.
Checked 23 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Badger Creek, Victoria, Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule to Clause 44.01 (EMO) and Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule 3 to Clause 44.01 (EMO3).
The rule next door
- Healesville
- SLO22 on the town's house blocks, every one in the bushfire overlay.
- Coldstream and Woori Yallock
- SLO22 in their towns, and SLO6 or SLO2 on the farms.
Checked 23 October 2026 against Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule 22 to Clause 42.03 (SLO22) and Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule 6 to Clause 42.03 (SLO6).
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