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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

 

Get a quote for tree planting, woodland or forest creation

Complete woodland creation and planting establishment services

Ground Control offers a six-stage approach as part of our tree and woodland planting service offer

  1. Site Evaluation and Assessment including a site walkover of each possible location to review opportunities and constraints.
  2.  A post-walkover study to determine the feasibility of planting,  and propose budget
  3. 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.
  4. Mobilise contract 
  5. Site Preparation & Planting: Undertake all ground preparation works including cultivating and enriching the soil before planting, securing, and protecting all planting works.
  6. 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

Get a quote for tree planting or woodland creation

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