Vegetation Management

Scrub Clearance  is the process of returning areas of under-managed or forgotten land covered with vegetation to a suitable condition for re-introduction into production or prior to development. We work with clients in towns and Cities such as Bristol and Bath and cover all of the Southwest Counties including scrub clearance in Wiltshire, Somerset, Berkshire, Dorset and Gloucestershire.

Use Conservation Contractors for all your land and landscape management needs.  After scrub and site clearance, we can arrange rolling programmes to maintain a scrub free environment on chalk, grassland and heath land restoration projects.   We can also draw up a plan for sustainable woodland management and include your Biodiversity Net Gain projects.  We were heavily involved with the clearing of large acres of scrub for the LIFE project on Salisbury Plain. We operate with qualified staff: all staff carry full NPTC & NRoSO Cards - see accreditations

We carry out scrub clearance and mulching in a wide range of situations by mechanical means,  either by hand, ATV or weed wiper - from whole no-burn site clearance, clearing of scrub gorse, thorn, bramble etc to whole trees leaving a tidy finish.  Our large mulcher is capable of tackling brambles up to small trees.

Examples of recent vegetation management work undertaken includes:

Details of other work involving scrub clearance and vegetation management in Wiltshire and beyond can be found on our news page here

“Great work on our Estate; very happy and would definitely recommend”
- Jody, Estates Manager, Near Warminster (March 2024)

We used the forestry mulcher to clear approx. 2 Ha of scrub and understory in a mature woodland to help maintain the parkland of the Estate.

Our specialist scrub clearance equipment includes

Tracked 360 excavator - 13 ton low ground pressure tracked machine suitable for wet and steep conditions, also used for ground works and general digging works when not on forestry duty.

McConnel ROBO-FLAIL- safe on steep slopes, radio controlled so no operator required, mulching flail on the front.  McConnel’s remote technology helping this all-terrain machine to reach the parts conventional mowers cannot! See it action here

Seppi Forestry Mulcher on reverse drive Valtra  - used to clear scrub and small trees from large and small sites where dense scrub makes works by hand time consuming and expensive.  It leaves fine mulch which rots down quickly.

  • Mulching Scrub for the National Trust on Cley Hill, WarminsterScrub Clearance on Cley Hill, Warminster - 1/4
  • Mulching Scrub for the National Trust on Cley Hill, WarminsterScrub Clearance on Cley Hill, Warminster - 2/4
  • Mulching Scrub for the National Trust on Cley Hill, WarminsterScrub Clearance on Cley Hill, Warminster - 3/4
  • Mulching Scrub for the National Trust on Cley Hill, WarminsterScrub Clearance on Cley Hill, Warminster - 4/4
  • Scrub clearance on the edge of Westbury White HorseScrub clearance on the edge of Westbury White Horse
  • Clearing of dense scrub at Blandford CampClearing of dense scrub at Blandford Camp - 1/5
  • Clearing of dense scrub at Blandford CampClearing of dense scrub at Blandford Camp - 2/5
  • Clearing of dense scrub at Blandford CampClearing of dense scrub at Blandford Camp - 3/5
  • Clearing of dense scrub at Blandford CampClearing of dense scrub at Blandford Camp - 4/5
  • Clearing of dense scrub at Blandford CampClearing of dense scrub at Blandford Camp - 5/5
  • shrub clearanceScrub Clearance on Salisbury Plain - 1/3
  • scrub clearanceScrub Clearance on Salisbury Plain - 2/3
  • scrub clearanceScrub Clearance on Salisbury Plain - 3/3

If you would like a no nonsense quotation for vegetation management, scrub clearance in Wiltshire and South & West England, get in touch.

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