by Matt Rew | 9th October 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Matt Rew | 1st March 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by David Archer | 26th January 2017 | Uncategorized
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...
by David Archer | 1st September 2016 | Uncategorized
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,...
by David Archer | 14th August 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Matt Rew | 5th August 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by David Archer | 3rd January 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by David Archer | 2nd January 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Mark Mackworth-Praed | 2nd January 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by David Archer | 2nd January 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Mark Mackworth-Praed | 2nd January 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by David Archer | 11th October 2015 | Uncategorized
A rare beast indeed and on two counts. Firstly this veteran English Oak is part of the largest remnant of veteran trees left in Europe. With the possible exception of Greece, Britain has the highest population of ancient trees in Europe. They are important for the...
