The importance of Tree Surveys

Posted on 5 March 201922 March 2019 by Debbie Newman

Another reminder from us about the importance of getting your trees surveyed and that they are your responsibility.

Here are two links to The Times and The Standard. They concern a celebrity interior designer facing a police investigation after a former soldier, explorer and tree surgeon(!) was crushed to death beside her £8m estate. He had been a passenger in a car travelling on the road alongside her estate when the tree fell on the car, killing him and insuring the other passengers.

Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/star-stylist-faces-inquiry-after-man-crushed-by-tree-rctqk0ztg

Standard: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/top-designer-faces-police-probe-after-falling-tree-at-8m-estate-crushes-exsoldier-to-death-a4078911.html

Aviva produce a very informative PDF entitled: 9001–liability for_hazardous_trees.pdf

Don’t forget that this is something Conservation Contractors can undertake for you; we’re here to help you manage your duty of care.

Check out our tree survey page on this website

Duty of care to have trees surveyed

Posted on 2 October 201810 October 2018 by Debbie Newman

This is why you have a duty of care to have trees surveyed on a regular basis…

The recent winds caused the tree to lose limbs and damage their neighbours’ vehicles in a car park in Bristol.

All cleared up and now back to Bristol to tidy the remains of the tree next week

Tree survey health safety tree works Tockington Manor School Oct 2017

Posted on 29 November 201729 November 2017 by Debbie Newman

Rich and Geoff at Tockington Manor School carrying out 2 weeks of health and safety tree works within the school grounds

Deadwood removal going on a pace at Tockington Manor in the sunshine pics of Geoff and Trevor apparently Rich has even got off the ground!

Forestry Commission

Posted on 9 June 201615 June 2017 by Debbie Newman

Since our last update, we are delighted to confirm that we have secured a framework agreement with the Forestry Commission for the inspection of infected trees across the South West of England This also includes felling infected trees and collecting samples. This will take us from Gloucester down through Dorset and to East Devon.

Plotting infected trees for landowners and public bodies, with samples taken and returned to Forestry Commission for testing, follows on from a contract to survey over 50 sites for a national health care company from Preston in Lancashire in the north to Kent in the south, along with MoD sites throughout the South West. Apparently the little white van now needs replacing !

Tree clearance Patney, near Devizes

Posted on 18 October 201510 June 2017 by Debbie Newman

The picture shows the final stretch of tree clearance over a tributary to the River Avon undertaken in October. Our task was to clear about a one mile stretch of the trees that were obstructing the waterway. It was wet underfoot and wetter outside, but it was a good job done and the waterway is now clear of vegetation for the next 20 years. See also our post on willow pollarding, as part of the same project.

Patney is in the Vale of Pewsey about 4.5 miles south-east of Devizes.

See our brief video showing the removal of self-set Alder trees

See our web page on Planned Tree Management