Tall, pale-trunked eucalypts over the scrub along a creek

Tree removal in Tarrawarra

Tarrawarra is farmland in a bend of the Yarra, home to an abbey and a winery. Two farm overlays cover it, and the flood overlay reaches a third of it.

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Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve. Photo: Mike Prince, CC BY 2.0

The rule in Tarrawarra

Tarrawarra is almost all farmland: 145 of our 150 points. SLO2 came up at 129 points and SLO6 at 21. Both need the council's permit for native vegetation of any size, and for a tree beyond:

1.1 m: around the trunk at 1.3 m, or about 35 cm through.

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: Both overlays exempt vegetation within 4 m of a building.
10 m: The 10/30 rule: all 150 points were in a Bushfire Prone Area. The conditions.

SLO2 exempts regrowth under 10 years on lawfully cleared land; SLO6 doesn't. Only 8 points were in the Bushfire Management Overlay, so the 50 m rule rarely applies.

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Checked 23 October 2026 against Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule 2 to Clause 42.03 (SLO2), Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule 6 to Clause 42.03 (SLO6) and Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 52.12 (bushfire protection exemptions).

Slow waters

The name is Aboriginal and refers to slow waters, the arc of the Yarra here. The flood overlay came up at 50 points. It controls building and works on the floodplain, not the removal of a tree, though filling or reshaping ground is works.

Checked 23 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Tarrawarra, Victoria, Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 44.04 (Land Subject to Inundation Overlay) and Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 62.02 (buildings and works not requiring a permit).

Syme's estate and the abbey

This was the View Hill estate until David Syme, owner of The Age, bought it in 1893 and renamed it. In 1954 Cistercian monks from Ireland bought part of it and founded Tarrawarra Abbey, where they run a beef farm. Another part is now the TarraWarra Estate winery and museum of art. The old slab cottage at the abbey, The Elms, carries heritage tree controls.

Checked 23 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Tarrawarra, Victoria and Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule to Clause 43.01 (Heritage Overlay).

The rule next door

Yering and Yarra Glen: SLO2 across the flats, with the flood overlay over much of them.
Healesville: SLO22 in town, and every house block we sampled in the bushfire overlay.

Checked 23 October 2026 against Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule 2 to Clause 42.03 (SLO2) and Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule 22 to Clause 42.03 (SLO22).

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