Arboriculture and Vegetation Management

Our Expertise

• Tree planting

  We are experienced in tree planting from small whips to mature trees. With a strong emphasis on the value of native species in encouraging the re-establishment of wildlife communities, we specialise in supplying and planting trees, shrubs and hedges, from a single specimen to large-scale tree planting and, where possible, sourced from UK suppliers.

• Tree surgery

  Our fully qualified and experienced tree surgeons will sympathetically carry out all tree surgery to BS 3998 (2010)with minimal disruption. We ensure full health, safety and environmental assessments are completed before starting any tree surgery work, following all relevant risk and method statements. We can access tree canopies using LOLER-checked ropes and harnesses or mobile elevating work platforms. Our services include felling, crown reduction, crown thinning, crown lifting, dead wooding, stump grinding and veteran tree management.

• Tree surveys

  RSK provides professional health and safety tree surveys that enable its clients to understand and manage any risk to and from their trees. Tree risk assessment always begins with understanding the client’s priorities, including safety, aesthetics and risk areas. We will efficiently and accurately collect all the data (up to 40 individual elements per tree) needed in one site visit.

• Sensitive staged cutting

  Vegetation clearance should be undertaken with care from March to September to avoid disturbing nesting birds and other wildlife. If work is needed outside of the optimal periods, we can undertake pre-commencement checks to ensure that all tasks fall within best practice guidelines and according to the Wildlife and Countryside Act.

• Cutting and clearance off site

  Our specialists can remove waste material and dispose of it off site, and recycle materials where possible, i.e., chipping and composting. We will also keep vegetation, when possible, on site to enhance habitat for target species while reducing costs.

• Hibernacula creation

  We offer habitat creation for species such as reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. We make our hibernacula from logs, stone and turf topped with soil then seeded or finished with turf.