Services

Our Arboricultural team aspire to be your ‘go-to’ solution for comprehensive and innovative arboricultural advice. Our experienced team deliver comprehensive surveys at the level of detail suitable to the specific requirements of each circumstance and commission – so you receive the most cost-effective service. All survey plans are on CAD to allow efficient overlay of all constraint information, (e.g. with Ecology and Landscape disciplines) to ensure there are no information gaps and multi-discipline coordination is made as simple as possible.

A key point of difference at JBA, includes our helpfulness, care for your project and engagement skills, and we consistently ensure pragmatic, good-practice solutions that get results, (as our testimonials demonstrate).

We are keen advocates of tree and general vegetation retention – wherever possible – within development sites, to reduce clearance and new landscape construction costs. Retention, where practicable, provides instant landscape maturity to the setting, and helps ensure net biodiversity gain.

A key part of our service is to identify trees, hedgerows and other vegetation worthy of retention – so you can decide if the savings can be made without compromising square footage of development etc. We also provide technical advice to help keep as many existing good quality trees and hedges as possible without compromising foundations and other build constraint issues. We really understand our clients’ commercial and development expectations, requirements and objectives and look to help maintain and deliver that vital ‘curb appeal’ by cost effective technical solutions to tree retention, or suitable replacement.

Our experience in using innovative construction methods to avoid root damage has been used on a number of sites with complex level changes and close proximity issues. However, some trees will always need to be removed to make layouts and land uses work efficiently, and for urban design and planning terms.  The team can demonstrate effectively, how these losses will work and how any such lost trees can be replaced, often ensuring a longer-term net benefit.

Our arboriculture services include:

• Pre Purchase Assessments
• Initial BS:5837 Tree Survey
• Constraints Plan and Report
• Implications Assessment and Method Statement
• Technical details for root protection
• Root plate surveys
• Tree Protection Plans
• Liaison with LPA tree officers
• PiCUS™ decay assessment
• Inspection Monitoring for tree works and throughout construction
• TPO Applications
• Management plans including woodland management plans

James Blake Associates are committed to biodiversity net gain – because more natural landscapes save developers serious sums of money, both in terms of build cost, ongoing maintenance costs (before and post adoption) and in terms of avoiding biodiversity offsetting costs of buying credits. The earlier we can get on to sites and the more involved with the master-planning process, the more we can help you save money and achieved a more successful vegetation setting for your scheme.

Trees retained benefit the scheme, but we appreciate that where they do need to be lost to make the urban design work for you, they can be replaced, and the arboricultural team will be glad to advise you and the landscape team on tree choice and location.