Site Clearing Across Mandurah & the Peel Region

A block is only as good as what's not on it

Between the house and the boundary line, most established Peel blocks carry decades of accumulation: overgrown vegetation, a rusting shed or two, runs of tired fencing, an old chook pen, a trailer that stopped rolling in 2009. Site clearing is the job of getting all of it off — sorted, carted, disposed of properly — and leaving ground a builder or surveyor can actually work with.

Sometimes it follows a house demolition. Sometimes it's the whole job: a vacant lot that's gone feral, or a rural block being tidied for sale.

Two very different kinds of block

Suburban Mandurah clearing is about precision. In Lakelands and Meadow Springs, where subdivision activity keeps producing new lots against old acreage edges, clearing is usually about preparing a defined building envelope — vegetation out, stumps ground or dug, ground left level — without touching the neighbour's side of the line. Older blocks in Coodanup and Greenfields being cleared for subdivision need the accumulated structures gone and the ground proven clean.

Pinjarra and the rural fringe is about volume. Big blocks accumulate big things: machinery sheds, lean-tos, stockyards, fallen timber, buried rubbish from an era when the back paddock was the tip. These jobs get planned around truck movements and tip runs as much as machine hours — and around what's in the sheds, because rural outbuildings from before 1990 routinely carry asbestos cement roofing that has to come off as a licensed asbestos removal stage before the shed is touched.

The clearing runs in passes

1. Walk the block, mark the keeps. Established trees you're keeping, boundary fences that stay, anything with a question mark over it — flagged before machines arrive.
2. Suspect materials tested. Old sheds, cladding and buried sheeting get sampled if they look like asbestos-era stock. Licensed removal happens first, separately.
3. Structures down. Sheds, fences and outbuildings dismantled or pushed, steel separated for recycling. Pads and paths handled as concrete slab removal.
4. Vegetation out. Trees felled and processed, stumps out or ground, green waste chipped or carted.
5. Grade and hand over. The cleared area levelled, rubbish gone, block ready for the surveyor, builder or sale photos.

One caution that matters in the Peel: native vegetation clearing is regulated under the Environmental Protection Act 1986, and on rural blocks — especially near the Serpentine and Murray river systems and the estuary fringe — some clearing needs a permit even on freehold land. Planted garden vegetation is a different story. A contractor who works this region will tell you which side of the line your block sits on before anything comes down.

Clear once, clear properly

The expensive version of this job is the one done twice — a "cheap" clear that leaves stumps, buried concrete and a surprise sheet of asbestos for the earthworks contractor to find. The written scope should name every structure, tree and pile, state where the waste goes, and describe the finished ground. Typical costs by block type are on the costs page.

Call (08) 9516 2266 and describe the block — suburban lot or Pinjarra acreage — and we'll connect you with contractors who'll quote the whole clear, not just the visible half.