Arborpro Tree Services

Arborpro Tree Services Professional friendly Tree Surgery company covering Norfolk and Suffolk. Fully qualified and insured Arborpro Tree Services is here to help!

Our qualified and experienced team carry out all aspects of tree surgery and hedge work in South Norwich, Norfolk & Suffolk

Busy day stump grinding and a Silver Birch that had failed at the base
02/06/2026

Busy day stump grinding and a Silver Birch that had failed at the base

02/06/2026

🐦 HEDGE CUTTING & NESTING SEASON — WHAT THE LAW ACTUALLY SAYS

Every year social media fills up with posts saying “hedge cutting is illegal between March and August.”

That is NOT strictly true.

Here’s the actual law in simple terms:

Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, it is illegal to intentionally:
• damage or destroy an active bird’s nest
• disturb nesting birds
• destroy eggs

What matters is WHETHER THERE IS AN ACTIVE NEST — not simply the act of cutting a hedge.

✅ LEGAL:
• Trimming or reducing a hedge after checking properly and finding no active nests
• Carrying out essential maintenance carefully
• Stopping work if a nest is discovered

❌ ILLEGAL:
• Continuing to cut when you know birds are nesting
• Throwing nests out so work can continue
• Deliberately disturbing nesting birds
• Recklessly destroying an active nest

This is why professional tree surgeons and hedge contractors inspect before starting work.

If a nest is found:
➡️ work should stop
➡️ the area should be left undisturbed
➡️ work is rescheduled once the nest is no longer active

There’s also a difference between residential hedge cutting and agricultural hedge management.

Farmers often use large hedge cutting machinery (flails) for field hedges, which is why there are additional rules and guidance around cutting dates in the countryside and under farming schemes.

For homeowners and tree surgeons, the law still comes back to one thing:
👉 active nesting birds must not be harmed or disturbed.

Good contractors don’t just know the law — they work with wildlife, not against it.

Busy week lots of stump grinding carried out hedge reductions and trimming artic loads of chip out of our yard garden cl...
29/05/2026

Busy week lots of stump grinding carried out hedge reductions and trimming artic loads of chip out of our yard garden clearance and reductions carried out by the team great work boys and girls

23 conifers removed on a site in Mildenhall lots of pruning and felling work on a NHS site been a busy week guys and gir...
21/05/2026

23 conifers removed on a site in Mildenhall lots of pruning and felling work on a NHS site been a busy week guys and girls have worked really hard to get these jobs completed on time

Nice big declining Oak with lots of root decay pollarded to maintain and keep the tree
17/05/2026

Nice big declining Oak with lots of root decay pollarded to maintain and keep the tree

Monster hedge trim and top reduction 👊
07/05/2026

Monster hedge trim and top reduction 👊

Busy start to the week
06/05/2026

Busy start to the week

Busy day today reducing two Oak trees by 2/3 meters and a Ash tree by 2/3 meters and another Ash tree crown raised and d...
28/04/2026

Busy day today reducing two Oak trees by 2/3 meters and a Ash tree by 2/3 meters and another Ash tree crown raised and deadwood removed great work by the team today Uk Power Networks over seeing the work due to being close to live wires

Busy day reducing this huge Oak tree at Dunston Hall Hotel two climbers tackled this beast reducing it by 3 meters as it...
23/04/2026

Busy day reducing this huge Oak tree at Dunston Hall Hotel two climbers tackled this beast reducing it by 3 meters as it’s a Tpo tree so all paperwork submitted to the council for this works to be approved

Back at it busy day lots of timber off site today guys worked really hard
22/04/2026

Back at it busy day lots of timber off site today guys worked really hard

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Saint Mary’s Close, Newton Flotman
Norwich
NR151AH

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