Tree removal in Yellingbo
Yellingbo is farms around a nature reserve that shelters Victoria's state bird. Every point we sampled was under the same farm overlay.
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Ask for a quoteYellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve. Photo: Mike Prince, CC BY 2.0
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The rule in Yellingbo
Yellingbo has one landscape overlay, everywhere: SLO6 came up at all 485 points we sampled. Its permit covers native plants of every size, and any tree past:
- 1.1 m
- around, at 1.3 m up the trunk. Around 35 cm in diameter.
- 4 m
- Nothing within 4 m of a lawfully built building needs it, and branches may come back to 4 m clear.
- 10 m
- The 10/30 rule: 484 of the 485 points were in a Bushfire Prone Area. The conditions.
SLO6 has no exemption for regrowth. ESO1 came up at 212 points and keeps a permit for large standing dead trees.
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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) and Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 52.12 (bushfire protection exemptions).
The helmeted honeyeater's reserve
The Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve runs as a chain of streamside bush along Woori Yallock, Cockatoo and Sheep Station Creeks. SLO6's statement names it as habitat for the helmeted honeyeater, and it holds the last wild population of that bird, the state's emblem. Leadbeater's possum lives there too. 87 of our points fell on the public conservation land.
Checked 23 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Yellingbo, Victoria, Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule 6 to Clause 42.03 (SLO6) and Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule 1 to Clause 42.01 (ESO1).
Claxton, then Parslow's Bridge, then Yellingbo
The town grew around James Claxton's store, opened in 1883 beside Woori Yallock Creek, and was called Claxton. His family later built a bridge there, and it became Parslow's Bridge. In 1946 it was renamed Yellingbo, after the last Aboriginal resident; the word means "today" in Woiwurrung.
Checked 23 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Yellingbo, Victoria.
The rule next door
- Seville and Hoddles Creek
- SLO6 again, with SLO5 and SLO22 in Seville.
- Macclesfield, Cockatoo and Gembrook
- Macclesfield is Yarra Ranges under other overlays. Cockatoo and Gembrook are in Cardinia Shire, whose overlays work differently.
Checked 23 October 2026 against Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule 6 to Clause 42.03 (SLO6) and Cardinia Shire Council: vegetation removal.
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