Ashford has grown faster than most of Kent, and its gardens show it: young trees on new estates, and mature oaks kept from the farmland that was there before.
Ashford
The Great Stour and the East Stour meet in Ashford, and the town has spread out from there across what was farmland, with big new neighbourhoods like Finberry and Chilmington Green. Plenty of hedgerow oaks were kept when the estates went in, and they now stand in the middle of people's back gardens.
New-build gardens bring their own jobs. Boundary hedges of leylandii and laurel, planted small, race past two metres in a few years, and trees placed close to houses for instant effect start crowding walls, gutters and windows.
In the older streets around the town centre and Victoria Park, the trees are bigger and the gardens smaller, so the work there tends to be careful reduction rather than clearing.
Permissions
Ashford Borough Council
Ashford Borough Council handles preservation orders and conservation areas in the town, and in Tenterden. On newer estates there's an extra check: trees kept or planted when the estate was built can be protected by an order made at the time, or by a condition attached to the planning permission. Either can mean consent is needed, so we look at both before quoting.
Services in Ashford
Bringing fast-growing leylandii and laurel boundaries back under two metres, before they cause a falling-out with the neighbours.
→Grinding out stumps left by builders or by earlier felling, so lawns and patios can go in level.
→Reducing the old field oaks that ended up in back gardens, keeping the tree and getting the light back.
→Removing trees planted too close to new houses, in sections where there isn't room to fell.
→Clearing fallen limbs and trees from fences on the more open, exposed estates.
→Common here
Young ornamental trees on new estates are often planted closer to the house than they should be. Dealing with one at five years old is far simpler than at twenty.
Questions
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