If your planning application around Canterbury or Ashford has been impacted by the recently announced need to demonstrate nitrogen neutrality in relation to the Stodmarsh SPA, get in touch as we may be able to help, having dealt with this issue previously in the...
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Breaking news – Greater horseshoe bat rediscovered in Kent
Further to discoveries by others this year, it has just been confirmed that our Principal Ecologist Claire Munn and her team, recorded presence of a Greater Horseshoe bat during a dawn survey in Kent. More to follow......
Major changes to great crested newt licensing in Kent – Natural England aim to cut the red tape
As of 28th February 2019, you may no longer need to conduct surveys or on-site mitigation for great crested newts (GCN) for development sites in Kent. As part of Natural England’s move towards a landscape-scale approach towards conservation and an aim to reduce delays...
Challenges within Arboriculture
We recently went on camera to discuss some of the challenges currently facing the arboricultural industry. Some of the topics discussed were; importation of new diseases, government cut backs, and tighter regulations on planning and development. If you would like any...
Do trees have feelings?
The traditional view of trees and other plants as being cruder organisms than animals is being overturned by a plethora of recent research, a recent Treework Seminar in London's Kew Gardens heard. Researchers point to functions including breathing, digestion, problem...
Will ash dieback cost you?
Ash dieback is back, with significant implications for landowners and highways departments. The foliar fungal disease that made headline news last year has returned, but this time it is large mature trees rather than young specimens that have fallen victim to the...
Return of the Elm
Fifty years after Dutch Elm Disease wrought havoc, wiping out virtually every elm in Britain, David Archer Associates are working to bring these beautiful trees back to our streets and parks. Brighton and Eastbourne were among the few areas of the UK spared the total...
DAA welcomes Mark Mackworth-Praed to the team
Beginning in 1978, Mark’s career in arboriculture spans 37 years of experience as a contractor, local authority tree officer and arboricultural consultant. In 2009, he was accepted as a Registered Consultant of the Arboricultural Association, the premier accreditation...
The new shoots of technology
To think that we have learnt more about our trees in the last 100 years than we have in the last 1000 is a clear sign that we are well and truly entrenched in a new era of innovative thinking. Only recently, it was discovered that the first stages of cloud formation...
Core Values
The process of learning by our mistakes means there inevitably comes a point where we no longer do things that once seemed the proper thing to do, and, often later, a point when we shudder to think we ever did. In arboriculture it’s no different. Many of us in our...
What do bananas and autumn leaf colour have in common?
Autumn leaf colour affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees. In the autumn season, leaves taken on various shades of red, yellow, purple, black, orange, magenta, blue and brown. But why are leaves normally green? Most leaves look green because...
How ancient is ‘ancient’, and does it matter?
As a concept, ancient woodland is remarkably recent, and has only really become part of our day-to-day arboricultural thinking since the 1980s. The 1985 Forestry Commission reviewBroadleaves in Britain was one of the first ‘official’ publications to acknowledge its...