PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT
Clear, effective and comprehensive documentation to support and inform development projects.
Advice at an early stage to avoid conflicts and to identify potential planning issues and solutions.
- PRE DESIGN / APPLICATION
- DESIGN CONSULTANCY
- POST DESIGN / PLANNING CONSENT
- ADVOCACY / APPEALS / PLANNING OBLIGATIONS
PROTECTED TREES & LEGAL ADVICE
- Advice, guidance and advocacy for a range of situations regarding the law and trees.
- Formal appeals and objections to planning
- Tree Preservation Order applications
- LPA enforcement, boundary conflicts, criminal damage and nuisance actions
- Injury or damage claims to person or property.
TREE RISK ASSESSMENTS
- Users of the Quantified Tree Risk Assessment method (QTRA).
- A systematic and transparent approach.
- Detailed tree work specifications, fully compliant with BS3998: 2010
- Contractors can price accurately and tenders can be compared more effectively – colour coded plans and grid reference data, where appropriate.
ESTATE & WOODLAND MANAGEMENT
- We provide various levels of estate management guidance, produce written management plans and apply for woodland felling licences and provide re stocking plans and guidance.
- Ancient Tree inspection inventory – We can undertake assessment and inspection of ancient and veteran trees (AOVT) from basic walk-through risk evaluations to more detailed levels of individual or group inspection and landscape assessment. We also evaluate habitat potential by way of basic scoping surveys
Mortgage Reports & Subsidence
- Homebuyer mortgage surveys, including at the request of mortgage lenders or insurers
- Preliminary level report – possible effects of trees on the structural integrity of property
– incl potential to cause harm to users of the property or their possessions. - Detailed analysis to provide structural engineers with the appropriate level of arboricultural information for them to undertake subsidence or heave risk assessments in accordance with NHBC 4.2.
Roots & Rhizosphere
Detailed root investigation works using airspade techniques.
Tree root remediation works specifications…
• Vertical Mulching / Mulching
• Root Collar Investigations
• Soil Aeration / Decompaction
• Radial Trenching
• Mycorrhizal Applications
