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Planning & Development Services
If
the site you are involved in developing has significant trees on it - you'll
need an arboriculturist (consultant arborist) on your project
team. We work with architects and landscape architects, developers, engineers
and planners to ensure that a site's tree population is dealt with in an informed and responsible manner.
Mature trees can make an immeasurable contribution to the quality and character of a site. Planning is increasingly focused on sustainable development and the management of existing trees and hedgerows is a key factor. Much of our work over the past ten years has concerned trees and development projects -surveying trees and producing Arboricultural Reports.
The Arboricultural Report includes:
- A detailed Tree Survey.
- An Arboricultural Implications Assessment (What impact will the layout have upon the existing trees and vica versa).
- Recommended methods to ensure retained trees are properly protected during development works.
Our tree surveys are naturally in accordance with current regulations and leading standards such as BS 5837 (2005). We have full 'Autocad' capability and are 'SafePass' registered.
A
tree survey
tells you what tree resource your
site has and, most importantly, where the really good quality trees of long-term
potential are located and where the poor or
hazardous trees are situated. This is essential for optimum layout design.
Planners and architects have design and planning expertise - tree expertise needs to be given to them in a simple form as early as possible.
Dead OR Alive?
Following the tree survey, a preliminary plan can be produced noting the site's important trees most suitable for retention and the soil space they require for survival; this informs optimum and sustainable architectural design. For planning application submission a report is finalised summarising the sites' tree and hedgerow cover, the implications of the proposed development, and detailing best practice management of those trees feasible and desirable for retention.
This approach reflects best practice, BS 5837 and the requirements of modern planning authorities - avoiding the pitfalls of poor design, tree-building conflict and future terminal tree damage - ensuring a professional, realistic and sustainable approach ideally pitched for planning approval.
A detailed tree survey report (by an independant arborist) is now an essential requirement of most planning authorities. By working together, architects, arboriculturists and planners can ensure the site is sustainably
developed with appropriately conserved mature tree cover in good condition: the kind of place
in which we all deserve to live and work!
Contact us today to discuss your project.
