Victorian villas, steep sandstone gardens and some of the finest mature trees in the county, much of it inside a conservation area.
Tunbridge Wells
Tunbridge Wells was laid out with its trees as part of the plan. The commons, 256 acres across Tunbridge Wells and Rusthall, still reach into the heart of the town, and parks like Calverley Grounds, Dunorlan and Grosvenor & Hilbert carry the green deep into the streets.
The town sits on the sandstone of the High Weald, which breaks the surface at High Rocks and at Toad Rock on Rusthall Common. Gardens here are often steep, terraced and reached down a narrow side path, so much of our work is about getting a tree down without touching anything on the way.
Many of the big villas were planted with cedars, pines, limes and beeches that are now well over a century old. They're a large part of what makes the town look the way it does, which is exactly why so many of them are protected.
Permissions
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
Large parts of the town lie within conservation areas, and there are many tree preservation orders on top. In practice, most work on a sizeable tree here needs either an application or six weeks' notice to Tunbridge Wells Borough Council. We check the records, write the paperwork the way tree officers expect to read it, and plan the job around the decision.
Services in Tunbridge Wells
Sympathetic reduction and thinning of mature limes, beeches and cedars, specified to make sense to a tree officer and to the street.
→Rigged, sectional removal in steep and narrow gardens, every piece lowered clear of roofs, walls and glasshouses.
→Narrow-access grinders that fit down side paths and up garden steps, so the stump can come out wherever the tree stood.
→Yew, holly and laurel hedges in period gardens, cut to a crisp line and cleared away.
→Made-safe call-outs when an old limb fails, with dated photos for the insurer.
→Common here
Old trees in old gardens usually come with a history of past pruning. We look at what's been done before deciding what to do next.
Questions
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