Landscapers in Logan work under the same QBCC rules as the rest of Queensland: structural work worth more than $3,300, such as a retaining wall, paving or a deck, needs a licence, and your licence details have to appear in your advertising, which includes your website. Our Brisbane landscapers page explains the two licence classes. What differs in Logan is how council handles trees and native vegetation.
Two overlays decide most clearing questions. The Logan Planning Scheme 2015 controls clearing through the Biodiversity Areas Overlay and the Waterway Corridors and Wetlands Overlay. Council says all clearing of native vegetation inside the waterway corridors and wetlands overlay needs approval. The biodiversity overlay map has a primary vegetation management area, where all native vegetation is protected, and a secondary area, where native trees and native habitat trees are protected. Council's definition of clearing covers removing, cutting down, ring-barking, pushing over, poisoning or destroying vegetation in any way. Lopping, meaning cutting or pruning branches, isn't clearing, unless the trunk comes out or the pruning is so severe the tree is likely to die.
What's exempt. Council's exemption criteria include clearing on a lot of less than 5,000 square metres, other than remnant endangered regional ecosystem, as long as the lot isn't in the Environmental management and conservation, Rural or Rural residential zones, the Acreage precinct of the Low density residential zone, the Emerging community zone or a mapped koala corridor. Other exemptions cover clearing inside an approved development envelope, service corridors up to two metres wide and accessways up to five metres wide, fire control lines along boundaries, and fuel reduction around a house, where native vegetation can go within 10 metres and everything except native trees for a further 10 metres (5 and 5 metres around a shed or garage). Maintaining native plants other than trees in an existing garden, regular mowing and slashing, and removing two named species, cadaghi and umbrella tree, are exempt too. Council's vegetation clearing decision tool and the Logan PD Hub show whether a property sits in an overlay. Where approval is needed, council asks for an operational works application with a site plan showing which trees would be removed or kept, their species and size, and any with nests or hollows.
Koalas and fire ants. Across South East Queensland, the state treats clearing in a koala habitat area inside a koala priority area as prohibited unless it's exempt; the exemptions include a once-off 500 square metre allowance per premises and necessary work such as removing dangerous trees. Sequential clearing and koala spotter requirements under the Koala Conservation Plan apply even when clearing is exempt. Fire ants are the other constant. Queensland updated its fire ant biosecurity zones from 15 April 2026, and the National Fire Ant Eradication Program listed the City of Logan among the council areas affected. Soil, mulch, turf, potted plants, manure, baled hay and quarry material all have movement requirements. Our Brisbane page covers how they work.
Where the work is, and how we work. The city takes in older suburbs such as Springwood, Daisy Hill and Shailer Park, Beenleigh and Eagleby towards the Gold Coast, growth areas around Park Ridge, Yarrabilba and Flagstone, and acreage at Greenbank, Jimboomba, Logan Village, Munruben, Cedar Vale and Chambers Flat. Tell us which you want more of and we'll set your service area out to match. We're an Adelaide web design team at Hutt St and work with Logan landscapers by phone and email only: send photos of finished jobs and your licence details if you hold one, and we'll come back with a draft link for you to go through.