Growing Trees, Growing Futures.

Is your project located near trees, or could it potentially impact them? Will the presence of these trees affect your development plans? Ensuring your project complies with planning regulations, including tree protection measures, is often a legal requirement. That’s where our expert reports come in. We provide comprehensive tree surveys and assessments tailored to your planning application needs, helping you comply with regulations, safeguard valuable trees, and avoid costly delays.

Tree Surveys in Accordance with BS5837:2012

A tree survey conducted to BS5837:2012 standards involves a detailed visual assessment of each tree, mapping its location digitally, and recording vital information about its condition and relative value. Trees with higher value may necessitate adjustments to your project, whereas lower-value trees may be considered for removal. Following the survey, we provide a comprehensive Tree Constraints Report and Plan, offering guidance to both your design team and the planning department to ensure a harmonious balance between development and tree preservation.

Tree Constraints Report and Plan to BS5837:2012

The Tree Constraints Report is an essential first step in understanding how nearby trees may influence your project. The accompanying Tree Constraints Plan identifies the precise location of trees, detailing factors such as root protection areas, canopy spreads, and tree value. This information helps your design team and planning authorities make informed decisions during the early stages of development, ensuring that the design is considerate of tree-related constraints.

Arboricultural Impact Assessment (AIA)

Once your project’s design is finalized, an Arboricultural Impact Assessment evaluates the development’s impact on nearby trees. This assessment determines whether the impact is minimal and manageable or significant enough to require design modifications. For high-impact cases, we offer recommendations for mitigation or compensation measures to reduce tree damage, helping to prevent the need for a full redesign. This process ensures that your development is feasible and provides the planning authorities with the necessary data to make informed decisions on your application.

Arboricultural Method Statements (AMS)

Arboricultural Method Statements outline the necessary steps for protecting trees during the development process. These statements typically consist of two phases:

Preliminary AMS: This stage outlines potential protective measures, such as ground protection or fencing, and includes their approximate locations on the Tree Constraints Plan.

Full AMS: Once planning permission is granted, the planning departement oftne require a Full Arboricultural Method Statement. A Full Arboricultural Method Statement provides detailed guidance on how the works should proceed to avoid damage to retained trees. This ensures that all tree protection measures are clearly defined and adhered to during the construction phase.

Arboricultural method statements (AMS) are used to describe how trees should be protected during development. They generally come in two phases. A preliminary AMS will indicate the likely actions needed such as ground protection or protective fencing and its approximate location. These features will be added to the tree constraints plan to form a tree protection plan. The preliminary stage provides and overview while "full arboricultural method statement" is produced typically when planning permission is granted. The full version will provide detailed guidnace on how works shall proceed to avoid harm to retained trees.

Subsidence

Subsidence can damage buildings by movement of the ground beneath them. Subsidence can be caused by many things, but trees are often a cause due to soil shrinkage. Consequently, home insurers and lenders need to understand the risk.

We are Lantra qualified and experienced. Our reports are delivered quickly to help you keep you purchase on track, help you understand the risks and what you can do to manage them.

Heave

Heave is much less common than subsidence but can be caused by trees. Our reports can help you understand the risks and what you can do to manage them.

What is your duty of care regarding trees? How is a tree assessed for safety? What is the minimum standard of care? Could you liable in the event of tree failure?

Tree Risk Assessment

The risk from trees depends on their location, size and condition. We can help you understand the risks and what you can do to manage them. We are Lantra and QTRA qaulified with over 25 years experience of assessing tree Risk.

Tree Safety Reports

Our tree safety report outline all the risks and what you can do to manage them. We can help you understand the risk and provide a comprehensive management plans to meet your duty of care. For larger sites we can provide a website based tree management system to help you manage the risk.

Trees provide a multitude of benefits to site users and society but they can also be neglected so that those benefits are lost.

Asset Management is a process of recording and managing the trees on your site to ensure they are providing the benefits you want. This can be as simple as a tree inventory or as complex as a full asset management plan. We can help you with all of these. An inventory lets you know what is present on site and where it is. This can be used to inform management decisions and to help you plan for the future. An asset management plan will provide a detailed plan of how to manage the trees to ensure they are providing the benefits you want.

An asset management plan also helps track the health and growth of trees and plan for future planting and maintenance so the trees on your site are sustainably budgeted for and managed.

We start with the principle of 'Right Tree - Right Place' and look at the future potential of trees from an aesthetic, functional and biodiverse standpoint. We look at opportunities to enhance or conserve the trees and we then assess any current or future issues that may present problems. Our recommendations then follow on from these findings.

Often, there is no point focussing on one tree while neglecting the value of others around. Our pragmatic approach looks at trees collectively so that the value of trees and the benefits they provide is maximised overall, now and into the future.

Tree Asset What? Just like trees can create hazard and risks that needs managing, we prefer the focus on trees being assets. Trees provide a multitude of benefits to site users and society but they can also be neglected so that those benefits are lost.

Asset Management is a process of recording and managing the trees on your site to ensure they are providing the benefits you want. This can be as simple as a tree inventory or as complex as a full asset management plan. We can help you with all of these. An inventory lets you know what is present on site and where it is. This can be used to inform management decisions and to help you plan for the future. An asset management plan will provide a detailed plan of how to manage the trees to ensure they are providing the benefits you want.

An asset management plan also helps track the health and growth of trees and plan for future planting and maintenance so the trees on your site are sustainably budgeted for and managed.

We start with the principle of 'Right Tree - Right Place' and look at the future potential of trees from an aesthetic, functional and biodiverse standpoint. We look at opportunities to enhance or conserve the trees and we then assess any current or future issues that may present problems. Our recommendations then follow on from these findings.

Often, there is no point focussing on one tree while neglecting the value of others around. Our pragmatic approach looks at trees collectively so that the value of trees and the benefits they provide is maximised overall, now and into the future.

Tree Asset What? Just like trees can create hazard and risks that needs managing, we prefer the focus on trees being assets. Trees provide a multitude of benefits to site users and society but they can also be neglected so that those benefits are lost.

Asset Management is a process of recording and managing the trees on your site to ensure they are providing the benefits you want. This can be as simple as a tree inventory or as complex as a full asset management plan. We can help you with all of these. An inventory lets you know what is present on site and where it is. This can be used to inform management decisions and to help you plan for the future. An asset management plan will provide a detailed plan of how to manage the trees to ensure they are providing the benefits you want.

An asset management plan also helps track the health and growth of trees and plan for future planting and maintenance so the trees on your site are sustainably budgeted for and managed.

We start with the principle of 'Right Tree - Right Place' and look at the future potential of trees from an aesthetic, functional and biodiverse standpoint. We look at opportunities to enhance or conserve the trees and we then assess any current or future issues that may present problems. Our recommendations then follow on from these findings.

Often, there is no point focussing on one tree while neglecting the value of others around. Our pragmatic approach looks at trees collectively so that the value of trees and the benefits they provide is maximised overall, now and into the future.

Tree pests and diseases are often a consequence of compromised health in the tree. We can diagnose your tree health and prescribe a management plan that may support recovery, slow the rate of infection or prevent future hazards arising.

Tree Asset What? Just like trees can create hazard and risks that needs managing, we prefer the focus on trees being assets. Trees provide a multitude of benefits to site users and society but they can also be neglected so that those benefits are lost.

Asset Management is a process of recording and managing the trees on your site to ensure they are providing the benefits you want. This can be as simple as a tree inventory or as complex as a full asset management plan. We can help you with all of these. An inventory lets you know what is present on site and where it is. This can be used to inform management decisions and to help you plan for the future. An asset management plan will provide a detailed plan of how to manage the trees to ensure they are providing the benefits you want.

An asset management plan also helps track the health and growth of trees and plan for future planting and maintenance so the trees on your site are sustainably budgeted for and managed.

We start with the principle of 'Right Tree - Right Place' and look at the future potential of trees from an aesthetic, functional and biodiverse standpoint. We look at opportunities to enhance or conserve the trees and we then assess any current or future issues that may present problems. Our recommendations then follow on from these findings.

Often, there is no point focussing on one tree while neglecting the value of others around. Our pragmatic approach looks at trees collectively so that the value of trees and the benefits they provide is maximised overall, now and into the future.