Serving the Comox Valley
Tree removal in Royston
Royston fronts Baynes Sound inside Comox Valley Regional District Electoral Area A, an area of 7,926 residents taking in Baynes Sound and Denman and Hornby Islands. No municipal tree permit applies at this address. The development permit areas set out in the Rural Comox Valley Official Community Plan do.
Waterfront and near-waterfront ground is the one place in the valley where the absence of a tree bylaw does not mean the absence of rules.
What applies here instead of a tree permit?
Development permit areas. They cover riparian corridors and environmentally sensitive land, and they are about the ground and the water rather than the tree itself. We confirm which apply to your address before any saw comes out, because the penalty for getting it wrong lands on you and not on us.
What does a foreshore lot do to a tree?
Salt, wind and thin soil, in that order. Trees on exposed frontage grow shorter and heavier-limbed than the same species half a kilometre inland, and their root plates sit shallow in ground that drains quickly. That changes how we rig them, because there is less holding wood than the trunk diameter suggests.
How do you get equipment onto a foreshore lot?
Access is often tighter than the lot size suggests — a narrow strip beside the house, or a slope down toward the water that a chipper cannot follow. We walk that access on the same visit we assess the tree, because it decides whether wood comes out through the yard in one trip or has to be carried in stages. A tight site changes the plan, not the price of the tree itself, and we say so before we quote it.
Our tree services
- Tree removalFull removals by ISA Certified Arborists, rigged and lowered in sections where a straight fall would hit something. Stump and cleanup quoted alongside.Read more
- Storm and danger treesWindthrow, hung-up stems and split leaders. Risk assessed to the ISA method, and anything inside a utility approach distance goes to BC Hydro first.Read more
- Stump grindingStumps and buttress roots ground 20 to 30 cm below grade, deep enough for turf, paving or a replanted tree. Quoted separately from the removal.Read more
- Pruning and limbingDeadwood, roof clearance and canopy reduction cut to ANSI A300. Branches near an energised line go to the utility first.Read more