BS 5837 advice for trees on development sites
Expert arboricultural advice for BS5837 recommendations
Our arboriculture team has a vast amount of experience in assisting our clients with all aspects of the design and construction process highlighted within BS5837. The advice may include undertaking a tree survey of a potential development site, providing pre-planning constraints and design advice within a tree report or producing arboricultural impact assessments and tree protection plans.
Once planning permission has been granted, our team will prepare detailed arboricultural method statements, which local planning authorities may request as a planning condition. Our post-planning advice can also include site monitoring and watching brief work for particularly sensitive areas of development, including any agreed work within a tree’s root protection area (RPA).
There is often a requirement to work closely with our colleagues in ecology, EIA and planning, landscape and archaeology. We are also supported by cartographers, CAD technicians and our environmental modelling and GIS team.
Planning and practical background experience
Our arboriculturists local authority planning experience combined with their extensive practical backgrounds enable them to provide pragmatic advice tailored to our clients’ needs. We have excellent geographical coverage across the UK.
- Pre land purchase tree appraisals
- BS5837 tree surveys
- Tree constraints plans and reports
- General design advice
- Guidance on foundations with respect to NHBC Chapter 4.2 ‘Building near trees’
- Specific advice on specialist engineering/construction solutions, required if proposing development within a tree’s root protection area
- Arboricultural Impact Assessments (AIA)
- Final planning statements and reports
- Arboricultural Method Statements (AMS), heads of terms
- Tree retention/removal plans
- Tree protection plans
- Watching brief, particularly when digging/excavating within or close to a tree’s root protection area
- New tree planting advice
- Input into strategic landscape design
- Site monitoring
- On-going tree management plans
- Liaising with designers, architects, planners, and local planning authorities
- Guidance on implementation of Street Works (formally NJUG) Volume 4 issue 2 – guidelines for the planning, installation and maintenance of utility apparatus in proximity of trees
Arboriculture advice and support
From tree surveys to on-site monitoring, we’re here to help.
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