We survey trees in advance of development, seeking to retain, protect and enhance the existing arboricultural resource and form harmonious relationships between trees and development. Trees are a material consideration in the planning process. If you are submitting a planning application for development on land that has trees on or close to it, your local planning authority will require a BS:5837:2012 compliant arboricultural report as part of the validation requirements of the application. If you are looking to discharge planning conditions relating to trees, you will likely require an arboricultural impact assessment, arboricultural method statement and site monitoring (if required). LandArb Solutions provides a comprehensive and trusted suite of reports that are compliant with BS: 5837:2012 ‘Trees in Relation to Design, Demolition and Construction Recommendations’. We pride ourselves on being able to draw up all our tree surveys and plans in house using state of the art tree surveying and drawing software packages that provide unrivalled efficiency, clarity, accuracy and quality of presentation.

Local Planning Authorities have various validation requirements which need to be met as part of planning applications. We provide years of tried and tested arboricultural and landscape related advice, to help you better understand and navigate the planning system. We are throughly familiar which the varying issues that can arise on any given project, and provide bespoke solutions to help ensure we achieve a successful outcome in relation to your project from a tree and landscape perspective.

We will visit site to carry out a BS: 5837: 2012 compliant tree survey of all existing trees and woody vegetation on or immediately adjacent site. We will then prepare a tree survey plan and survey schedule, that will be incorporated into the site layout and used to aid the design development process.

Having visited site and surveyed the existing arboricultural resource, we will then work with you and the design team to ensure appropriate tree retention is achieved as part of the site layout proposals, anticipating the local planning authority requirements, and helping achieve a harmonious relationship between trees and built form. We will provide ongoing advice as the design progresses, and prepare a tree retention and loss plan, protection plan and impact schedules, together with an impact assessment report.

Many sites do not require a method statement of exactly how retained trees will be protected. On occasion, the local authority will typically condition the requirement for a method statement on more complex sites, of how protection measures will be implemented on site. We can prepare detailed method statements of exactly what protection measures will be employed and how they will be installed on site.

We have tried and tested experience of overseeing site monitoring for tree protection on sites of various sizes and complexity. Often the local planning authority will condition a requirement for site monitoring, whereby we will visit site at agreed intervals and key stages to ensure protection measures are correct and in place, and report back to the local authority as a requirement of the planning permission.