Arboricultural Consultancy Services
Tree Inspections & Surveys
Designed and implemented to ensure that a tree owner fulfils their `Duty of Care' requirements under the ‘Occupiers Liability Act 1954/1980’, thereby ensuring that the tree stock is managed in a safe and healthy condition and does not represent a health and safety problem to the general public.
The owners and managers of commercial premises have additional legal requirements under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, to ensure that trees within their site boundaries pose no threat to the safety of their employees, or visitors to the premises.
In most cases, the implementation of a tree survey creates a working framework around which a long-term pro-active tree surgery and management programme can be established.
Trees In Relation To Proposed Development Areas
Arboricultural & Woodland Consultancy Services offers a package of Arboricultural services to meet the increasing demands required by a Local Planning Authority (LPA) with regard to planning issues.
All survey and report work undertaken in accordance with BS 5837 ‘Trees in relation to construction’ (2005) and has been designed to deliver advice from pre-development through to the post- development stages. It covers landscape issues, and the effects that a proposed new development may have on the local environment. The detailed content of each report is tailored to meet the requirements both of the site and the planning authority.
- Undertaken to BS 5837 `Trees In Relation To Construction' (2005)
- Pre-development site surveys
- Tree constraints and construction exclusion zone planning
- Arboricultural impact assessments
- Tree protection planning
- Arboricultural method statement
- Advice on site layout
Tree Surgery Contract Management
AWCS purposely does not offer a tree surgery contract service, to ensure its impartiality regarding recommended tree survey work.
We will undertake contract management to ensure the implementation and management of tree surgery work as recommended within a tree inspection or survey documentation and ensure that the work is undertaken in accordance with up-to-date industry ‘best practice’.
- Tree management agency services
- Tree preservation orders
- Conservation area orders
Working in accordance with the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 & the Town and Country Planning (Trees) Regulations 1999, a Local Authority has the opportunity to protect, what it considers to be individual trees, tree groups or woodland areas that are of high ‘amenity’ value, through the implementation of Tree Preservation Orders (TPO’s) or Conservation Area Orders.
Woodland Management Services
Consultancy advice is also offered on woodland management problems. This package of services is aimed at the Amenity Woodland Management, rather than the Commercial sector.
Advice offered on:
- Felling licenses.
- Woodland surveys and long-term management planning timber utilisation, marketing and sales
- Re-planting layouts, species selection, planting and establishment specifications woodland grant application agency work
- Contract management
Veteran Tree Management
Trees are the world’s longest living structures and form an historic natural link with the past, unfortunately the pressures of land development, health and safety considerations and global warming is creating a rapid decline in their health and number. With their loss, comes the removal of a link with our ancestry, but with a unique habitat for wildlife.
Arboricultural & Woodland Consultancy Services is committed to the management of these historic trees through a policy of education, and through the implementation of specifically targeted survey work, where appropriate, utilising professionals from allied ecological industries, and through the implementation of appropriate tree management work. All work undertaken in accordance with guide lines set by Natural England and the Veteran Tree initiative.