The career of a tree surgeon presents a series of challenges. An effective tree surgeon requires the physical assets of strength and dexterity. He needs to be a specialist in operating and maintaining his machinery and, finally, the wherewithal to negotiate legal hurdles lest they find themselves in court. That’s the emphasis of this write-up as we touch on Tree Preservation Orders (TPO’s).…

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There is little existing guidance or methods available to place a realistic value on a garden. Currently a value can be determined on the land; either by way of ‘comparative’ valuations by Estate Agents (a method of valuation that helped cause the current world economic problems), who should be…

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Cornwall has traditionally had the lowest percentage of tree cover in England, yet paradoxically has a very strong and well managed tree department, (under the new One Cornwall local authority, but it has been so before this), as well as a truly rich heritage of study and 'tree heroes' as well as of course a huge database of tree surgeons and service companies. Why is this and why is tree surveying and tree health… Continue

Trees are rarely valued properly, there are numerous factors to take

into consideration and as such the real or financial value of a particular tree is hard if not simply impossible to ascertain. Following on from work carried out by D R Helliwell and latterly the CAVAT system and in light of growing academic research, (particularly into the sustainable attributes of tree planting, which has yet to have penetrated the psyche of the average layman and thus rarely gets any serious…

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