What we supply before day one
- Risk assessment and method statement (RAMS) specific to your site, not a template with your name pasted in.
- Public liability certificate to the value stated on this site, plus employer’s liability.
- NPTC / City & Guilds certification for every operative on site, including aerial rescue currency.
- Waste carrier registration and, where required, waste transfer notes for every load leaving site.
- Traffic management proposals where works affect a highway or shared access.
Development sites
Clearance ahead of a build is rarely just a felling job. Most sites carry an arboricultural method statement and a tree protection plan under BS5837:2012, with protective fencing positions and no-dig construction exclusion zones already agreed at planning. Getting it wrong is an enforcement issue, not a tidy-up issue.
We work to the AMS as written, install and maintain the protective fencing, and record compliance with dated photographs so your arboricultural clerk of works has something to sign off.
Tree safety inspection and duty of care
If you own or manage land the public can access — a school, a housing scheme, a business park, a pub car park — you have a duty of care under the Occupiers’ Liability Acts, and the Health and Safety Executive expects a proportionate, documented tree inspection regime. Not a survey of every tree every year, but a risk-based zoning of your estate with recorded inspections at defensible intervals.
The practical test after an incident is whether you can produce the record. We carry out visual tree assessments, record them against a plan with individual tree references, flag defects with priority timescales, and re-inspect on the cycle we agree.
Ash dieback
Chalara ash dieback is the dominant estate management problem in Leicestershire and will be for the rest of the decade. Ash was one of the county’s most common hedgerow and boundary trees, and infected trees become brittle unpredictably — they fail without the warning signs a decayed tree normally gives, which is exactly why they are dangerous to work on and dangerous to leave.
Where ash sits within falling distance of a road, path, building or boundary, it needs inspecting annually and actioning while it is still safe to climb. Once a tree is beyond about 50% crown loss, it generally has to come down from a MEWP or be dismantled remotely, and the cost roughly doubles. Early action is cheaper action.