Tree surgeons in Marshalswick
Marshalswick is interwar and post-war housing on generous plots, with no conservation area of its own. That makes Tree Preservation Orders the thing to check here, not the six-week conservation notice.
About Marshalswick
The estate was built out from 1938 on the land of the sold Marshalswick Farm by the developer T F Nash. Only The Ridgeway West, parts of Kingshill Avenue, Kingshill Crescent, which was renamed Queen's Crescent in 1960, and Pondfield Crescent were finished before 1940, and the rest followed after the war. The plots from that first phase are wide by modern standards, which is why so many of the garden trees here are now full-sized rather than ornamental. Jersey Farm Woodland Park, 55 acres of mixed woodland and meadow, sits on the northern edge.
What is protected in Marshalswick
There is no conservation area covering Marshalswick, so the section 211 notice does not apply here by default. What does apply is any Tree Preservation Order on the individual tree, on a group, or on an area order covering a whole estate. Area orders are easy to miss because nothing on the tree says so. We check the council's planning constraints layer and the TPO number list before quoting, every time.
The trees round here
Interwar gardens on this scale were planted with trees that had room to get away, so the common jobs are height reductions on limes and sycamores that now overshadow a whole back garden, deadwooding on older oaks, and taking leylandii boundaries back to something a neighbour can live with. Anything against the woodland park edge gets treated as woodland rather than garden, because what is growing there did not start life as an ornamental.
Marshalswick postcodes we cover
AL1, AL4.
Do you need permission to work on a tree in Marshalswick?
Marshalswick is not a conservation area, so the six-week notice rule you may have read about does not usually apply here. What does apply are Tree Preservation Orders, and the big interwar gardens off The Ridgeway and Kingshill Avenue hold plenty of protected specimens. A TPO application to St Albans council carries an eight-week decision clock, and felling or wrecking an ordered tree costs up to £20,000 per tree. So in Marshalswick the first question is simply whether your tree carries an order, and we check the register before we quote rather than after. The full detail is in our guide to Tree Preservation Orders in St Albans.
What we do in Marshalswick
- TPO register checked first We check the protected-tree position before we quote, on every job.
- Fixed written quotes Scope, access, waste and price on one sheet, before anyone climbs.
- No cold calling, ever We never knock doors after a storm and we never leaflet a price.
- Insured, qualified climbers Public liability cover on every job. Ask and we send the certificate.
Get a price in Marshalswick
Free site visit, the protected-tree position checked, then a fixed price in writing.