Woodland creation
Planting trees for commercial landscaping, carbon-offsetting and nature recovery projects

Professional tree planting for businesses across England, Scotland and Wales
- Multi-award-winning service
- Professional teams working across England, Scotland, and Wales
- Large-scale woodland creation
- Small-scale woodlands, shelterbelts and hedgerows
- Orchard tree planting
- Specimen tree planting
- Carbon offsetting and mitigation
- Carbon sequestration
Complete woodland creation and planting establishment services
Ground Control offers a six-stage approach as part of our tree and woodland planting service offer
- Site Evaluation and Assessment including a site walkover of each possible location to review opportunities and constraints.
- A post-walkover study to determine the feasibility of planting, and propose budget
- A detailed design and specification following the client's instruction to proceed, including soil testing, all necessary surveys (i.e. underground services), and final costing.
- Mobilise contract
- Site Preparation & Planting: Undertake all ground preparation works including cultivating and enriching the soil before planting, securing, and protecting all planting works.
- Establishment Management: Manage all new planting areas through the early establishment period to tailor the management plan.
Planting options:
- Tiny Forests: small-scale (circa 200m2) high-density native woodland planting. High biodiversity and carbon sequestration value in a compact space. Opportunity for community involvement in planting, establishment, and monitoring.
- Food Forests (or Forest Garden): planted with multiple layers of edible plants including tall trees, small trees, shrubs, herbs, and ground covers, producing a vibrant, productive, low-maintenance, and relatively self-maintaining ecosystem.
- Orchard Tree Planting: areas of trees and shrubs planted for food, usually fruit, offering considerable ecological value, through scrub, hedgerow, and grassland habits for a wide range of animals and plants in addition to the value of the fruit trees themselves.
- Specimen Tree Planting: trees planted apart from other trees, providing a significant contribution to canopy cover whilst providing valuable habitat and often forming ecological corridors and stepping stones between woodlands.
- Hedgerows: strips of woodland edge habitat, in many shapes and sizes, often the only link between other isolated patches of wildlife habitat. Dense, species-rich hedgerows provide valuable nesting and foraging opportunities for a range of wildlife.
- Large and mall scale Woodlands: multipurpose woodlands designed to deliver a broad range of objectives. All woodlands will typically comprise tree and understorey shrub planting species with patches of open ground.
Further, support services on offer include:
- Grant application and management
- Stakeholder engagement and consultation
- Biodiversity net gain assessments, monitoring, and reporting
- Woodland Carbon Code and Carbon insetting