Viking
Tree Consultants
Services
With extensive experience and traditional values, we use modern techniques and equipment to ensure we cover all tree related needs and enquiries.
Our clients include, schools, local authorities, housing associations, facilities management companies, land owners and managers as well as homeowners.
Tree Risk Management
We specialise in advising clients on managing the risks trees may pose. We can help by:
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Developing a defensible tree risk management policy tailored to your needs
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Use zone mapping of landholdings ensuring available resources are effectively managed.
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Undertake a cyclical programme of tree inspections.
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All our tree inspectors hold the recommended Lantra Professional Tree Inspection qualification as a minimum.
Planning
We have a wide range of expertise in providing clients advice regarding tree management for development purposes.
Trees have become more important than ever in our environment, this places added pressures on landowners who wish to develop their landholdings. Local planning authorities require specialist tree surveys and reports to support your proposed development and we can help by providing the following:
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BS5837:2012 Tree Surveys
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Arboricultural Impact Assessments
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Tree Protection Plans
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Arboricultural Construction Method Statements
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On site supervision and provision of a watching brief report
Locum Tree Officer Cover
We have the necessary knowledge and expertise to act as a locum tree officer. Our experience covers both the tree inspection and planning aspects of arboriculture and means that we are able to undertake any aspect of an authority's arboricultural function with the minimum of induction into local processes and practices.
Tree Planting
Through our knowledge of tree species and tree planting solutions we can assist in creating and improving urban landscapes. By selecting the right species for the location and site usage, coupled with specifying appropriate maintenance and monitoring regimes, we aim to improve planting success and increasing canopy cover leaving a legacy for future generations to enjoy. We can offer a planting service along with ongoing maintenance as well as planting design and specification work.
Contractor Management
Following recommendations for tree works, whether in relation to the management of risk, control of pests and disease, aesthetic improvements or for development purposes, it is essential the works are carried out to the recognised standards, industry best practice and in a safe and efficient manner.
Our team are able to manage this process and offer a range of health and safety approved contractors who we can gain a fee proposal from.
We will then provide detailed work instruction and manage the whole work process from start to completion.
Ash Dieback
Most parts of the UK are affected by the fungal disease that causes ash dieback. It is expected that 80% of our ash trees will suffer to some extent with this disease with a very high proportion ending in death. This poses a significant issue for landowners especially where infected trees are located within close proximity to properties or highways.
To assist our clients, we have developed a programme of inspections that identifies affected trees and classifies them in line with the nationally recognised Tree Council Ash Dieback Tool Kit.
Once we have identified the location of ash trees across your landholding we analyse the information and tree classification to create an efficient and economical approach to managing the recommended remedial works.