Advice on employing a tree surgeon

Before employing a tree surgeon to undertake 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 undertake 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 undertake 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

Gaskin Tree Works

49 Station Road
Bishops Cleeve
Cheltenham
GL52 4HJ

Cheltenham Tree Services

7 Loweswater Close
Cheltenham
GL51 3BA

SPAtrees

7 Victoria Retreat
Cheltenham
GL50 2XP

Eldridge Tree Services

Catesby House
Haresfield
Stroud
GL10 3EQ

Chris Arnold Tree Surgery

1 Mill Cottages
Dumbleton
Worcestershire
WR11 7TR

First Arb

Wood Lane Nursery
Wood Lane
Down Hatherley
Cheltenham
GL2 9QB

Silver Tree Services

132 Slad Road
Stroud
Gloucestershire
GL5 1RE
(Operations base located in Cheltenham)

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

BJ Unwin Forestry Consultancy

Parsonage Farm
Longdon
Tewkesbury
GL20 6BD

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 run an approved tree contractor and arboricultural consultant scheme. This means they have undertaken 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.