Canterbury · Blean · Downland villages · CT1–CT4
Hedge cutting, reduction, and tree services: pruning, crown thinning, crown raising, crown reduction, deadwooding. Across Canterbury, the Blean fringe and the Stour valley villages. Fully insured. We plan around the bird-nesting window (1 March – 31 August). Six-week conservation-area notice handled for you.
What we do
Specified for Canterbury's chalk-and-loam mix, the wildlife protections around the Blean, and the conservation-area rules that cover most of the city centre. Hedge cutting and reduction for the boundary; pruning, crown thinning, raising, reduction and deadwooding for the mature trees behind it.
Annual or twice-yearly cuts on privet, yew, hornbeam, beech, holly and laurel. Clean lines, on-site arisings cleared, no power tools after 6pm.
See pricing & timingBringing overgrown hedges back into proportion, including the 1970s leylandii that dominate Hales Place and Sturry Road. Staged where the species needs it.
How we reduce safelyPruning, crown thinning, crown raising, crown reduction and deadwooding on the mature trees behind the hedge. TPO and conservation-area notice handled for you where the tree is protected.
See tree workOur promise
We don't ask for payment until you've walked the hedge with us and you're happy. If we haven't done what we said we'd do, we put it right or you owe us nothing. No deposits, no upfront, no chasing.
Anyone on a state pension, automatically. No card, no proof of anything, just mention it when you book. Honour system; we trust people.
Used us before? Your next job over £500 gets 10% off, no time limit, no asking. It's logged when we send the quote, you don't need to remind us.
Why local matters
Most of the city sits on the Seaford Chalk Formation, thin, sharply alkaline topsoil that bakes dry in July. The Stour valley is a different story: deep loam in Wincheap, St Dunstan's and Northgate, where hedges grow harder and faster. The Blean fringe brings ancient woodland species, hazel dormice protected under the 2017 Habitats Regulations, and a different cut-back protocol entirely.
We work to that variation, not against it. Yew on the downland slopes. Hornbeam where beech would scorch in dry summers. Native mix on the Blean edge. And a tape measure on any stem near the 75mm conservation-area threshold before we touch it.
In a conservation area?
Most of central Canterbury, Wincheap, Northgate, St Dunstan's, Old Dover Road, the City CA itself, falls inside one of Canterbury City Council's 97 conservation areas. That means any tree with a stem over 75mm at chest height needs six weeks' written notice before pruning. We file the section-211 notice on your behalf, included in every quote.
Recent work
A running log of jobs around Canterbury and the surrounding villages. Updated as we finish them.
Send a couple of photos and a postcode. We'll come back same-day with a fixed price and the next available date.