If you're responsible for a commercial site, a managed estate, or a block of flats with mature trees on the grounds, you'll already know the position you're in: those trees are an asset until the day one of them isn't, and then the question everyone asks is whether you knew about the risk beforehand. Tree risk assessments in Nottingham are how you answer that question properly, with a written record rather than a guess. This isn't a five-minute drive-by look from the road. It's a walkover inspection of every tree on your site (or a representative sample on larger grounds), checked against recognised defect indicators, and written up as a report you can hand to your insurer, your managing agent, or your board when someone asks what's being done about the sycamore leaning over the car park.

We carry out these assessments across Nottingham and the surrounding areas for property factors, landlords, housing associations, and commercial site managers who need something more defensible than "it looked fine to me." The person who walks your site and writes your report is the same person who founded this business on doing the parts of tree work other companies skip, so the report isn't handed off to a subcontractor you've never met.

• Risk categorisation using a named, recognised method - QTRA (Quantified Tree Risk Assessment) or the AA's Common Sense Risk Assessment - so every rating has a defined scoring logic behind it, not a personal impression
• A ground-level visual tree assessment (VTA) of every tree on site, or a defined sample on larger estates, checking the trunk, root flare, crown, and canopy for visible defects
• A written report identifying each tree by location (numbered or mapped where the site warrants it), its condition, and the risk rating it's been given
• Clear recommendations per tree: no action needed, monitor and reassess, prune to reduce risk, or fell
• Photographic evidence of any defects found, so the report stands up if it's later queried by an insurer or a resident
• A recommended reassessment interval based on what the survey finds, rather than a generic annual default
• Zoning of larger sites into target areas (car parks, footpaths, play areas, boundaries) so higher-footfall zones get closer attention than a back corner nobody walks through

• Aerial or climbing inspection to investigate internal decay is not part of a standard walkover survey - it's quoted separately if a tree flags for closer investigation
• Any remedial pruning or felling identified in the report is quoted and carried out as a separate job, not bundled into the report fee
• Root investigation (excavation or trial pits to check root plate condition) isn't included as standard and is only recommended where visible signs point to it
• Drone or LiDAR survey mapping isn't part of the base service - most sites don't need it, but it can be arranged for very large or inaccessible grounds
• A full BS5837 survey for planning or development purposes is a different, more detailed report than a risk assessment and is scoped separately if that's what you actually need

1. What triggers the request -- Most surveys start for one of three reasons: an insurance renewal that now asks for evidence of tree management, a specific complaint or near-miss involving one tree, or a new site - an estate you've just taken over managing, or a first survey nobody's ever commissioned. Telling us which one it is, plus a rough tree count and what the ground is used for, shapes how we quote the visit.
2. Site walkover -- We walk the grounds tree by tree, checking trunk base, root flare, crown structure, deadwood, cavities, fungal fruiting bodies, and lean, and note the surrounding target area - what's underneath or nearby that a failure would hit.
3. Risk categorisation and report drafting -- Each tree gets a risk rating using a recognised method rather than a subjective note, with the reasoning behind it written into the report so it's clear why a tree was flagged or cleared.
4. Report delivery -- You get a written report with photos, per-tree findings, recommendations, and a suggested reassessment date - in a format you can pass straight to your insurer, board, or managing agent.
5. Remedial work quote (if needed) -- If any trees need pruning or felling as a result of the survey, we quote that as a separate job. Because the same team does the tree work, the stump grinding, and the site clearance, you're not chasing three different contractors to close out one recommendation.
6. Reassessment scheduling -- For sites with an ongoing duty of care - housing estates, business parks, communal grounds - we can flag the next assessment date to line up with your insurance renewal or your existing maintenance cycle, so it doesn't quietly lapse.

George walks every site himself and signs off every report himself. He's NPTC-certified for aerial tree work, chainsaw operation, and rigging and controlled dismantling, and every visit carries £5,000,000 public liability insurance, so the qualifications behind your risk rating are the same ones that would carry out any felling or pruning the report ends up recommending. That continuity is deliberate rather than incidental: the business is structured as three connected divisions - tree services, forestry work, and property maintenance for factors and landlords - built around handling a site canopy to underground rather than passing pieces of it to different trades. George set the company up that way after seeing how often stump removal got left half-finished or quietly subcontracted once a tree was down, and the same logic applies to risk reporting: the assessment isn't a document handed over by someone you'll never see again, it's the opening step with the person who can also act on it. On the paperwork itself, every rating is scored against a named method, QTRA or the AA's Common Sense Risk Assessment, and written up with per-tree photos and a recommended reassessment date, in a format insurers and managing agents are used to accepting rather than a one-off template nobody recognises.

We're based at 20 Prince St in Long Eaton and cover Nottingham as our main patch, along with the surrounding towns and suburbs. That includes The Park Estate, where mature trees on a conservation site often carry Tree Preservation Orders, so any recommendation to fell needs to account for that before work is planned. Wollaton's proximity to Wollaton Park means some domestic and commercial boundaries back onto genuinely old oak and parkland-origin trees, which behave differently under inspection than younger street planting. Attenborough, close to the nature reserve and gravel pit wetlands, tends to have damper ground conditions that affect root stability and are worth flagging in a report rather than assuming standard drainage. Ravenshead and Southwell sit nearer the edge of Sherwood Forest, where you're more likely to be surveying veteran trees with genuine age-related deadwood rather than the younger stock typical of newer estates. Beeston and Bramcote, with a lot of shared and communal residential grounds near the university corridor, are common territory for the kind of estate-wide survey a housing management company would commission. We also cover Long Eaton, West Bridgford, Ravenshead, Edwalton, Gamston, Ruddington, Bingham, Arnold, Woodthorpe, Carlton, Mapperley, and Hucknall, with Derby and Mansfield covered for larger commercial instructions.

If your last tree inspection was informal, out of date, or never actually happened, that's the gap an insurer or a claim finds first. Get in touch to talk through how many trees you've got and what the site looks like, and we'll set out what an assessment and report would involve for your grounds.

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