Land Clearing and Mulching, Auckland

Working in Auckland

Auckland work is dominated by two things: the gullies and the neighbours. A large share of enquiries start with a complaint or a compliance letter about privet, or with a section that has become so overgrown the owner cannot get to their own back boundary. Both are access problems more than vegetation problems, and both are why remote-controlled machinery gets called instead of a chainsaw crew. Sites are tighter here than anywhere else we work, so send photos of the entrance as well as the vegetation.

The country here

A dense network of steep bush gullies threading through suburbs, and rural lifestyle country at both ends in Rodney and Franklin. Access is the defining Auckland constraint: the site is often behind a house, down a bank, with a narrow side entrance and neighbours on both boundaries. Our machines get in through as little as 1.4m of entry width, which decides a lot of Auckland jobs.

What dominates in Auckland

• Woolly nightshade, everywhere through the gully network
• Privet, both tree and Chinese, and the region's biggest source of vegetation complaints
• Old man's beard, smothering gully bush margins
• Pampas and gorse on motorway batters and open ground

Councils and compliance

Auckland Council

Auckland Council is a unitary authority, so it handles both the regional pest management plan and local reserves and roadside work. Privet is treated seriously here on health grounds, and a formal neighbour complaint about it is a common reason people call us.