Arb Approved Tree Surgeons | Edinburgh | Scotland
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At Thomson Trees, we provide expert tree consultancy services for commercial and domestic clients across Edinburgh and the surrounding areas. Our tailored solutions address tree safety, planning applications, and conservation, ensuring your trees are managed responsibly and sustainably.

Health & Safety Tree Survey Inspections

Legal Compliance and Risk Management

Tree owners have a legal duty of care to ensure the safety of their trees. Regular health and safety surveys are crucial for identifying potential risks and ensuring compliance with legislation. Our experienced consultants carry out detailed assessments and provide actionable recommendations.

What We Offer:

  • Onsite tree safety surveys.

  • Comprehensive reports including species, age, condition, and location.

  • Detailed recommendations for remedial work.

Recent Projects:

We have worked with a diverse range of clients, including schools, estates, charities, hospitals, industrial sites, and golf courses. Our expertise ensures thorough and efficient surveys tailored to site-specific needs.

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Commercial & DomesticSmall Scale Tree Inspections

detailed visual assessments

Services Include:

  • Negative Reporting Tree Surveys, inspecting all trees but recording only those requiring attention.
  • Ground-based and aerial inspections for advanced analysis.
  • Bat habitat assessments during aerial inspections.
  • Routine re-inspections to maintain long-term safety.
  • Utilise modern decay detection equipment to determine the stability of high-value amenity trees to help with decision making

Commercial & DomesticLarge Scale Tree Surveys & Inspections

Efficient and cost-effective solutions

For larger areas, such as estates, parks, and woodlands, we employ scalable methods to ensure comprehensive coverage:

Services Include:

  • We carry out inspections of roadside trees, parks, woodlands and private farms and estates
  • Undertake Visual Tree Inspections (VTA) from the ground
  • These are often Negative Reporting Tree Surveys where all the trees are inspected, but only trees that pose a hazard or need remedial work will be recorded or tagged. This method of surveying is recognised by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and is often a more cost-effective way of surveying large areas of trees.
  • We can undertake aerial inspections where necessary to check the structural integrity of the tree. This is usually as a result of a recommendation from the survey.
  • We carry out aerial inspections of trees looking for evidence of roosting bats.
  • We carry out routine re-inspections

This approach, endorsed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), balances safety with cost efficiency

** Professional Indemnity Insurance up to 2 million **

** Qualifications – LANTRA Certificate of competence for Professional Tree Inspections **

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Comprehensive Support for Your Trees

  • TPO advice and applications for tree work
  • Conservation area applications for work
  • Hedge & tree planting advice

Why Choose Thomson Trees?

  • Professional Expertise: Fully qualified arboricultural consultants with LANTRA certification for Professional Tree Inspections.
  • Insurance: Professional indemnity insurance of up to £2 million.
  • Sustainability: Commitment to environmentally sensitive practices.

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Tree surveys and planning applications in Edinburgh

Commercial & DomesticTree surveys for planning applications

Tree surveys are required to be carried out on trees within planning application sites or on adjacent land that could influence or be affected by any proposed development.

Your local planning authority will expect a tree survey to be prepared by a qualified Arboricultural consultant in accordance with BS5837:2012 – Trees in Relation to Design, Demolition and Construction.

Thomson Trees work with architects and developers to undertake onsite tree surveys for planning applications with a follow up formal report detailing the quality of trees, a tree constraints plan, an impact assessment of the proposed development in relation to the retained trees and a tree protection plan detailing the methodologies for working around the trees with the aim of protecting them throughout the process.

Where a proposed development involves working near any trees and the Council require site supervision, we offer an Arboricultural supervision service throughout the key stages of the development to provide evidence of compliance with the specifications of BS5837:2012.

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All quotations are free of charge at Thomson Trees Ltd. We are always delighted to hear from old and new clients, and will be happy to discuss your trees and offer any advice we can.

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