Websites for Gold Coast landscapers working canal frontages, hinterland acreage and suburban backyards: your QBCC licence shown properly, and your NSW one too if you cross into the Tweed, finished jobs captioned by suburb, and a quote form that asks about waterfront setbacks, trees and body corporate approval before you visit.
Landscaping work on the Gold Coast swings between very different blocks: a canal frontage in Broadbeach Waters, a townhouse courtyard in Southport, a sloping acre in the Tallebudgera Valley. Clients want to see that you've handled their kind of site and understand the rules that come with it.
On the Gold Coast, a retaining wall in a waterfront or oceanfront setback area needs building approval even if it's low, and owners are responsible for the revetment wall along their own frontage. If you landscape canal blocks, a short note saying you work with the owner's engineer and approvals near the water shows you know where your job stops.
Coolangatta runs straight into Tweed Heads, and NSW has its own contractor licence for structural landscaping such as walls, paving, decks and fences. If you hold one, show it beside your QBCC licence with the state named on each, so a client in Banora Point and a client in Palm Beach both see the number that applies to them.
Under the City of Gold Coast's vegetation rules, a tree is generally assessable if it's over 4 metres tall or its trunk is more than 40 centimetres around. Some pest trees, such as cocos palms and umbrella trees, can be removed once an AQF Level 3 arborist has identified them. If clearing is part of your work, say how you check and who you bring in.
Council's list of trees that can come out without approval doesn't cover land managed by a body corporate or within a community management scheme, and common gardens are decided by the body corporate rather than one owner. If you maintain complexes, give that work its own page with how you quote, report and schedule, so a strata manager doesn't have to dig through backyard makeovers.
Suburb, whether the property is on a canal or the beachfront, whether it's in a complex, how wide the access is, any large trees, and room for photos and plans. Those answers tell you whether a job needs an engineer, a committee vote or a permit before you spend a morning on the M1 getting there.
"Pool surround and coastal planting, Mermaid Waters" or "Sleeper terraces on a hillside, Mudgeeraba" tells a reader more than a gallery of unlabelled photos. We sort projects by type of work and name the suburb on each, so a reader can find a job near them in a few swipes.
Queensland's licensing rules apply here as they do in Brisbane: a QBCC licence for building work valued over $3,300, two licence classes written for landscapers, and advertising rules that treat your website, Facebook page and van signage as ads. We've set those out on our Brisbane landscapers page. What's different on the Gold Coast is the water, the trees and the state line.
Retaining walls and revetment walls. The City of Gold Coast says a retaining wall needs building approval unless it's under 1.0 metre high, more than 1.5 metres from a building or another retaining wall, holds back only the soil behind it, isn't part of a pool fence, has a combined wall and fence height under 2.0 metres, and sits outside any waterfront or oceanfront setback area. Stormwater has to be piped to the kerb or the stormwater system rather than concentrated onto a neighbour's land, and council suggests a side setback of at least 600 millimetres. Revetment walls are separate: waterfront landowners are responsible for maintaining the walls on their property, council can require it under Local Law No. 17, and reconstruction or changes to a wall's shape, position or materials usually need a new approval. Council recommends owners get an engineer to assess the wall.
Trees on private land. Council treats vegetation as assessable if it's more than 4 metres tall, has a trunk more than 40 centimetres around, or is mapped remnant or native understorey on the Vegetation Management Overlay Map. Its published exemptions, which don't extend to land managed by a body corporate or within a community management scheme, include vegetation along an existing boundary fence or near an approved building, with distances depending on lot size, anything within 1.5 metres of an existing pool fence, native understorey on lots under 1,000 square metres, trees an AQF Level 3 arborist identifies as a listed pest species, and trees a council Level 5 arborist finds dangerous. Its pest list includes the cocos (queen) palm, coral tree, cadaghi, slash pine and umbrella tree.
Fire ants and the NSW border. The City of Gold Coast describes three kinds of fire ant zone. In surveillance and eradication zones the National Fire Ant Eradication Program does the work; in the suppression zone council treats public spaces and residents manage their own properties, and anyone who finds fire ants is asked to report them within 24 hours. Crossing south brings another set of rules: NSW has its own Biosecurity (Fire Ant) Emergency Order, which controls the movement of fire ant carriers into and within NSW, so a crew taking turf, soil or mulch to a Tweed job checks the NSW requirements as well as Queensland's. For the NSW licensing side, see our Sydney landscapers page.
Where the work is, and how we work. Gold Coast landscaping turns up at state level too: Landscape Queensland's 2025 Residential Construction of the Year award went to a backyard project in Currumbin. Clients here describe themselves by area as much as suburb: the northern suburbs around Coomera and Pimpama, the canal suburbs from Runaway Bay to Broadbeach Waters, the hinterland valleys, and the southern beaches down to Coolangatta. We're an Adelaide team and build for Gold Coast landscapers by phone and email. Tell us which of those areas you want more work in and send photos of finished jobs, and we'll send a draft link to check between sites.
There's no Gold Coast landscaper in our portfolio yet. The closest work is a Queensland plumbing and gas business, and an excavation and structural landscaping business on the NSW far south coast.
Structural landscaping, licensed pool building and general earthworks across the Bega Valley, run from South Pambula. The one-page site leads with three service sections and a 42-photo gallery that swipes on a phone, the same treatment a Gold Coast crew could use for pool surrounds, walls and terraces.
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Services, a gallery sorted by job type, your QBCC details, the areas you cover and a quote form that takes photos, on one page. Enough for a maintenance round or a crew that lives on referrals.
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A home page, a construction page for walls, paving, pool surrounds and decks, and a maintenance page covering backyards and body corporate gardens, each with the enquiry form that suits it.
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Separate pages for construction, planting and turf, maintenance and body corporate work, a projects page, an about page with both licences, and pages for the Gold Coast suburbs and the Tweed side you cover.
Show each licence with its state beside it, and if the work differs, give the NSW side its own page or section. Queensland and NSW have different licence rules and different fire ant movement rules, so a client in Tweed Heads should be able to see which apply to their job. We word it from what you hold; check anything unusual with the QBCC and Building Commission NSW.
If canal and beachfront blocks are a big part of your work, yes, in a sentence or two: that low retaining walls in a waterfront setback area still need building approval on the Gold Coast, that the revetment wall is the owner's responsibility, and that you work with their engineer or certifier where needed. Leave the detail for the site visit.
Yes. The quote form can ask whether the property is in a complex and who manages it, so you know a committee or manager may need to approve the work. If you do regular common-area maintenance, a separate form for strata managers keeps those enquiries apart from homeowner ones.
Yes. The form can take photos of the yard, a landscape plan, a survey or an engineer's drawing, plus the suburb, access and any large trees. It all arrives in one email, so you can tell whether a job needs a bobcat or a hand crew before you reply.
By phone and email. We're a web design team based in Adelaide, South Australia, working with businesses Australia-wide, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. You send photos and your licence details, we send a draft link, you ask for changes, and you pay only once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us your QBCC licence number, your NSW one if you have it, the parts of the coast you want more work in and photos of a handful of finished jobs. You'll get a quote first, and we build the draft before you pay anything.
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