Advice on employing a tree surgeon

Before employing a tree surgeon to carry out work on your behalf you should ask to see the following documentation:

  • a copy of their public liability insurance (PLI). If you are employing an arboricultural consultant to carry out an examination of trees in your care, with recommendations for their management, they must have professional indemnity insurance
  • copies of their climbing, aerial rescue and chainsaw certificates
  • a risk assessment for the job in hand

All tree surgeons should be working to best arboricultural practice and according to British Standard 3998:2010 Tree work - Recommendations.

The council employs contractors to carry out tree works to council owned trees and we keep recent copies of their insurance, qualifications, licences and so on.

List of contractors

Below is a list of arboricultural contractors and consultants that are known to our trees section, however we cannot recommend a particular company. We advise that you ask to see your chosen contractor/consultant’s qualifications and insurance to ensure that they are adequately covered.

Arboricultural contractors

Arbor Tree Care

Chris Mawdsley
Honeysuckle Cottage
Barnsley
Cirencester
GL7 5EL

Chris Arnold Tree Surgery Ltd

The Oakleys
Far Stanley
Nr Gretton
Gloucestershire
GL54 5HG

Cheltenham Tree Services

7 Loweswater Close
Cheltenham
GL51 3BA

Eldridge Tree Services

Catesby House
Haresfield
Stroud
GL10 3EQ

First Arb

Wood Lane Nursery
Wood Lane
Down Hatherley
Cheltenham
GL2 9QB

Gaskin Tree Works

49 Station Road
Bishops Cleeve
Cheltenham
GL52 4HJ

Greenway Tree Care

Jonny Platt
Greenway Tree Care
Sunnybrook House
Gloucester Road
Andoversford
GL54 4HR

Silver Tree Services

4 Wards Hay Close
Stoke Orchard
Cheltenham
GL52 7SP
(Operations base located in Cheltenham)

SPAtrees Ltd

7 Victoria Retreat
Cheltenham
GL50 2XP

Tree planting specialists

Nature First Ltd

Wood Lane Nursery
Wood Lane
Down Hatherley
GL2 9QB

Arboricultural consultants

Tree King Consulting

Whitelands
38 Mead Road
Cheltenham
GL53 7DT

Barton Hyett Associates Ltd

Barn 2
Oxpens Farm
Yanworth
Cheltenham
GL54 3QE

MHP Arboriculture

79 The Promenade
Cheltenham
GL50 1PJ

EDP Ltd

Second Floor,
Darwin House,
67 Rodney Road,
Cheltenham
GL50 1HX

Further information from the Arboricultural Association

The Arboricultural Association runs an approved tree contractor and arboricultural consultant scheme. This means they have carried out checks to certify that particular companies and consultants are competent and fully certified.  A list of locally approved contractors and consultants under this scheme is available from their website.