TREE SURVEY REPORTS
ARBORICULTURAL CONSULTANCY SERVICE
TREES GROWING TOO FAST OR CLOSE TO BUILDINGS?
Private and Commercial for peace of mind
SPECIALIST ARBORICULTURAL TREE INSPECTION SURVEY REPORTS (For Mortgage Lenders, Building Societies, Insurance Companies, Estate Agents, Etc.)
- HOME BUYER REPORTS
- HEALTH AND SAFETY REPORTS
- DEVELOPMENT ADVICE – PLANTERS AND SUPPLIERS OF TREES
- FULL PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE
- FULLY INSURED WITH FULL PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE
Arboricultural (Tree): Initial Visit and Report
Using this website will not commit you to placing an order.
There are a number of possible reasons for requiring an Arboriculturalist’s Report:
1. You have a tree (or shrub or creeper or wooded area) and you are concerned about its health. You want to know what can be done to address its long term needs as you want to ensure that it will remain healthy and presentable.
2. You are about to develop an area of land and as such you require a topographical survey to identify the trees and shrubs.
3. You have a tree near a building and you are concerned that it may in the future cause damage to the property.
If you have a building that appears to have already been damaged by a tree (for example subsidence caused by tree roots), then a report from an Arboriculturalist may be useful.
The cost for an Arboriculturalist to visit a property, examine a tree (or a group of trees) and produce a report, will vary greatly depending on individual requirements. The prices generated on this website are estimates only and assume that the requirement is reasonably straight forward. The estimate would include the cost for the Arboriculturalist to travel to the site, inspect the tree and produce a brief report. For a more accurate estimate of the possible cost you will need to speak to us directly using the contact details available.
Before placing an order for an Arboriculturalist’s Report you should ensure that your chosen supplier has suitable qualifications, experience and insurance.
Concerns regarding the health and condition of the tree generally arise because it could pose a danger to the property or to people from branches breaking off or even the whole tree being blown over by high winds. This is definitely a job for an Arboriculturalist who will advise on the risks and what pruning or other measures are necessary.
Concerns regarding tree roots which may affect the foundations of a property occur especially when the underlying ground is clay. In order to assess the risks it is necessary to establish the tree species and its distance from the property, the depth of the foundations, and to recover soils samples for laboratory tests to determine the 'Shrinkage Potential' of the clay. From these factors it is possible to assess the risks using tables from the NHBC Standards. Although an arboriculturalist can do this, it is not essential and the matter could be entrusted to an Engineer or Surveyor after your initial tree survey.
Services to construction industry
Absolute Tree Solutions work with architects, planning consultancies and engineers, supporting planning applications spanning the entire spectrum of scale, from private developers to volume house builders to commercial construction.
As one of the largest and fastest growing consultancies in the sector, we have a roster of consultants and executives undertaking instruction at every level, ensuring the client at all times has access to appropriately qualified and experienced consultant experts in a variety of disciplines and specialisations.
We provide a very comprehensive service, segmented into work stages; typically starting with a (pre site purchase) constraints study before moving on to the plans and written statements which inform the design team and support the application.
Services to loss adjusters, solicitors, and chambers
If your enquiry pertains to Conservation Area (CA), Tree Preservation Order (TPO) or High Hedge (HH) litigation please contact us as a matter of urgency – stringent time restrictions apply for decision challenges.
Trees & the Law
We offer specific advice and services covering common law rights and liabilities, and matters pertaining to: third party owned trees, High Hedges, tree preservation orders (TPO) and your liability in Duty of Care as a tree owner.
Services to corporate estates
Tree owners, domestic and corporate, are wholly and exclusively liable for any failure of trees in their ownership if they do not take all reasonable steps to reduce the risk of harm to an acceptable level. Corporate landowners have a liability in duty of care to ensure that their trees are inspected periodically by competent persons.¹
It follows by the use of simple logic that a corporate landowner with a large tree population under its responsibility, if left unmanaged, has a correspondingly significant liability should any tree fail within that population of perhaps tens or even hundreds of thousands.
We provide a discrete and reliable service to mitigate and exclude this liability, affording our clients the peace of mind that they have the audit trail and systems in place to present a secure and defendable case should the worst happen.
Q. Why have I been asked to obtain a ‘tree report’?
A. We produce reported advice to lenders in response to instruction, the need for which typically arises as a consequence of the lender (or their advisors) being unable to progress a mortgage application without further investigation into the risk¹ presented by trees to the security² on their loan³.
¹ risk of total tree failure, or a constituent thereof and, concerns surrounding tree related subsidence
² your new house
³ your mortgage
Express Homebuyer Arboricultural Report (EHAR).
We recognise the horrendous time pressures the house purchase system forces onto vendors and buyers. In response to this, we have developed the Express Homebuyer Arboricultural Report (EHAR).
One of our research consultants will visit your site/property and undertake their assessment and investigation, collating the data at the office through desk study and produce a report ready for release within 24 hours of instruction. This reporting is comprehensive and addresses every aspect of the lender’s concern, giving you the peace of mind that once instructed. And it gets better; we have an all inclusive fixed fee for this service which is banded dependent on how far your property is from our regional office.
Important notice
Always check qualifications, experience and insurances. A tree surgeon or contractor is not a consultant, nor does that title confer any authority to undertake mortgage or insurance reporting. Matt Rogers uses consultants who are all Professional Members of the Arboricultural Association or International Society of Arboriculture, and degree qualified as a minimum. All staff undertaking Tree Survey Reports are certified to do so and are indemnified by a bespoke Professional Indemnity Insurance Policy which includes the business practice of tree mortgage reporting. Under qualified or under insured ‘consultants’ who appear to offer a similar service may in fact be acting outside of their remit. Be aware that this could nullify any lending decision based thereon and require the assessment of risk to be re done at additional cost to the homebuyer.
ALL AREAS COVERED – BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, WORCESTER, STOURBRIDGE, NORTON, OLDSWINFORD, WOLLASTON, PEDMORE, CLENT, HAGLEY, KIDDERMINSTER, LYE AND WOLLESCOTE, KINVER, WOLVERLEY, TELFORD, DUDLEY, SEDGELY, HALESOWEN, BRIDGNORTH.
FOR A FREE, NO OBLIGATION QUOTE OR ADVICE
Please contact Matt Rogers,
- Office 01384 824939
- Mobile 07929 251 240
- Email matthew.rogers@talk21.com
M.H.ROGERS B.Sc. (Hons) N.P.T. Cert.
Senior Arborist
Tree Surgery Arboricultural Morgage Reports Tree inspections Site clearance
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