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Tree removal in Gladysdale

Gladysdale is old sawmilling country south of Yarra Junction, now farms and bush. One farm overlay and the bushfire rules cover nearly all of it.

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The Monda Trail, Yarra Ranges National Park. Photo: Geoff Bartlett, CC BY-SA 4.0

The rule in Gladysdale

All 267 points we sampled in Gladysdale were in a Bushfire Prone Area, and 254 were under SLO6. On a Gladysdale block the council's permit usually covers native vegetation of any size and trees above:

1.1 m: circumference, 1.3 m above the ground. That's a trunk about 35 cm wide.

Drawn to scale around a 12 m by 9 m house. The dashed ring is a state rule; the solid ring is a council overlay.

4 m: SLO6 exempts vegetation whose base is within 4 m of a building.
10 m: The 10/30 rule, and in the bushfire overlay, at 210 of the points, the 50 m rule for older houses. The conditions.

Regrowth has no exemption under SLO6; dead vegetation does, except where ESO1 holds a large standing dead tree.

Get a free property report from VicPlan to see which overlays cover your block.

Checked 23 October 2026 against Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule 6 to Clause 42.03 (SLO6), Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 52.12 (bushfire protection exemptions) and Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule 1 to Clause 42.01 (ESO1).

Erosion-prone country

An erosion overlay came up at 52 points, most of them on the Rural Conservation land. Where it applies, any vegetation, shrubs included, needs a permit unless it is a tree 50 cm or less around, within 2 m of a building, dead with the ground put back, or being lopped for health. A Restructure Overlay at three points covers old subdivisions and controls building, not trees.

Checked 23 October 2026 against Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule to Clause 44.01 (EMO), Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule 3 to Clause 44.01 (EMO3) and Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 45.05 (Restructure Overlay).

Slatey Creek, renamed for Gladys

The district was Slatey Creek until mail kept going to the other Slatey Creek near St Arnaud. The post office, opened in 1914, was renamed after Gladys Petitt, the postmistress's daughter. The mail came along the timber tramway from Powelltown to Yarra Junction, and sawmilling was the work.

Checked 23 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Gladysdale, Victoria.

The rule next door

Yarra Junction: SLO22 on the town blocks, SLO6 on the farms around them.
Hoddles Creek: SLO6 almost everywhere, with the erosion overlay over a quarter of it.

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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