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Significant and Regulated Trees Assistance Scheme

If you are a resident or business owner in PAE with regulated or significant trees on your property, we can provide a small grant to assist with maintenance. We understand that it can be an expensive task to safely maintain bigger trees on your property.

For the greater environmental benefit, we're offering up to $1,000 for maintenance of these trees, which can include pruning or pest treatments. To apply for a reimbursement under this scheme, please contact a suitability qualified arborist to visit your site and request them to complete this form (PDF, 169.6 KB.)

Once confirmed as eligible, you'll get an arborist suitably qualified tree maintenance company to carry out the maintenance works in line with the arborist’s recommendations.

Notify us when the works are completed, and if everything is in order, we'll reimburse you.

To be eligible, regulated trees must have a trunk circumference of 2+ metres and significant trees must have a circumference of 3+ metres (measured at 1 metre above natural ground level). Your arborist will be able to assist in taking this measurement.

Timeframes

Applications for the Significant and Regulated Trees Assistance Scheme are now open

Requests can be submitted at any time and will be assessed on an ongoing basis. Recipients will be notified of the outcome of their application within ten working days from submission. Successful applicants will be required to complete the works within six months of the date of their approval and acquit within 2 months of the completion of the activity.

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Guidelines

Eligibility criteria and exclusions apply, so please review the Significant and Regulated Trees Assistance Scheme guidelines (PDF, 5411.51 KB) and check the Significant and Regulated Trees Assistance Scheme Policy (PDF, 205.59 KB) before applying.  If you would like to discuss your application please contact us on 8405 6054 or email tree.grants@cityofpae.sa.gov.au.

How to apply

We provide an online application tool to help you prepare and submit your application. It's called SmartyGrants and it's available via the Apply Now button below. If you're a new user, you will need to start by registering a new account. Once registered and logged in you will be redirected to the "Before you Begin" page where you can start your application.

Applicants can only apply online when funding rounds are open. Support or access to computers and the internet can be provided if required.

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If you need to talk to someone about completing your grant application please contact one of Council's friendly Funding & Partnerships Officer on 8405 6882 or by email at grants@cityofpae.sa.gov.au

"We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the land on which we stand, the Kaurna People of the Adelaide Plains. It is upon their ancestral lands that the Port Adelaide Enfield Council meets. It is also the Place of the Kardi, the Emu, whose story travels from the coast inland. We pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We respect their spiritual beliefs and connections to land which are of continuing importance to the living Kaurna People of today. We further acknowledge the contributions and important role that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continue to play within our shared community."