Shepherdswell · Coldred · North Downs · CT15
Hedge cutting and reduction, plus tree services: pruning, crown thinning, crown raising, crown reduction, deadwooding. Across Shepherdswell, Coldred, Eythorne, Lydden and the North Downs villages around Dover. Fully insured. Native chalk hedgerow species. Six-week conservation-area notice filed on your behalf where a stem crosses the threshold.
What I do
Specified for North Downs chalk soil and the mix of farmland field-boundary hedges and Victorian-to-modern village plots that make up Shepherdswell, Coldred and the neighbouring villages. 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 hawthorn, field maple, privet, laurel, yew and the rest. Clean lines, all arisings cleared or chipped on site.
See pricing & timingBringing overgrown village-plot hedges back into proportion, the mature laurel and Leylandii screens on newer estate gardens that sit right on the 2m High Hedges line.
How I reduce safelyPruning, crown thinning, crown raising, crown reduction and deadwooding on the mature trees behind the hedge. Ash dieback assessed as part of every quote. TPO and conservation-area notice handled for you.
See tree workThe promise
I don't ask for payment until you have walked the hedge with me and you are happy. If I haven't done what I said I would, I put it right or you owe me 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.
Used me before? Your next job over £500 gets 10% off, no time limit, no asking. Logged when the quote goes out, you do not need to remind me.
Why local matters
Shepherdswell sits on the North Downs, on the Miner's Way Trail through the old East Kent coalfield parishes, and on the North Downs Way, which here follows the Via Francigena, the historic pilgrim route to Rome. The soil is thin chalk downland, sharply alkaline and free-draining, closer in character to Coldred and Eythorne than to the coast eight miles east. That changes what actually thrives: this is not a salt-exposure problem, it is a lime-loving, drought-tolerant planting brief.
I work to that reality, not against it. Native hawthorn, field maple and hornbeam for farmland boundary hedges out towards Coldred and Lydden. Yew for a tighter formal hedge on chalk, it is native to the North Downs and holds a clean line for decades. And a tape measure on any stem approaching the 75mm conservation-area threshold before I touch it, whether that is a village garden hedge on Mill Lane or a field boundary on the parish edge.
Inside a conservation area?
Shepherdswell's conservation area covers the older village core around Church Hill and Mill Lane, where 31 listed buildings sit on the National Heritage List, three of them Grade I. Any tree with a stem over 75mm at chest height needs six weeks' written notice to Dover District Council before pruning. I file the section-211 notice on your behalf, included in every quote.
Recent work
A running log of jobs around Shepherdswell, Coldred and the North Downs villages. Updated as each one finishes.
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