Tree surveys and reports for planning · UK-wide
BS5837 surveys, constraints plans and impact assessments, produced and signed by a qualified arboricultural consultant. Most domestic surveys come to £395 to £900. You get the fixed fee in writing within one working day, before anyone visits, and the report within five working days of the survey — against an industry norm of two to three weeks.
No guesswork
Every site is different, so nobody in this industry will tell you what a survey costs or when you'll get it. Here is what we will actually commit to.
What it really costs
£395 to £900
What a domestic BS5837 survey and constraints plan actually comes to, small site to large. Not a headline figure that changes once we have seen it.
What drives the price →Your quote
One Working Day
A fixed fee in writing within one working day of your enquiry. Not a range, not an hourly rate, and it does not move once we are on site.
Ask for one →Your report
Five days
Delivered within five working days of the survey, against an industry norm of two to three weeks.
Why we are faster →Impact assessments from £345 and method statements from £145 when taken alongside a survey. We will tell you free of charge if you need less than you think you do, which happens more often than you would expect.
Because it is the real one. Entry prices advertised elsewhere start at £249 to £349, and they buy a minimal survey on a small, simple site. Industry figures put a typical residential job at £600 to £1,200 — so most people who click a £249 advert are quoted several hundred pounds more once someone has actually looked at the site.
We would rather show you the range you are genuinely likely to pay and be occasionally passed over for it, than win the click and have the awkward conversation afterwards. If your site really is small and simple, you will pay the bottom of that range.
How it works
Postcode, roughly how many trees, what you're proposing and your deadline. If you have your council's validation checklist, send it — it tells us exactly which documents you need and, often, which you don't.
A written price and a survey date. Not an hourly rate, not a range, and not subject to revision once we are on site.
A qualified arborist records every relevant tree to BS5837:2012 — species, dimensions, condition, category — and checks TPO and conservation area status while they're there.
Survey schedule, constraints plan and recommendations, signed by the consultant who wrote it. Ready to go straight into your application.
Why we're faster
Every survey is done in person, on your site, by a qualified arborist working in the UK. There is no other way to do one properly and we would not pretend otherwise.
The slow part was never the visit. It is the write-up and the drawings, which is why most consultancies quote two to three weeks. Part of our reporting team works from New Zealand, eleven hours ahead — so field data recorded on a Monday afternoon here is being written up at the start of their Tuesday, while the UK is asleep.
That is a structural advantage rather than a promise to try harder, and it is why we can put five working days in writing instead of hoping.
What we produce
The one most planning officers mean when they ask for a tree survey. Records every tree that affects your proposals and maps where you can actually build.
£395 to £900 →Takes your actual design and sets out, tree by tree, what it does to them and how the damage is avoided. Usually what decides a contested application.
£345 to £700 →The instruction manual for building near retained trees. Often conditioned rather than required up front, so it can frequently wait.
£145 to £450 →Our prices, what the wider market really charges, what pushes a quote up, and which documents you can avoid buying altogether.
Read the guide →What a TPO actually restricts, how to check whether your tree has one, how to apply for consent, and what changes in a conservation area.
Read the guide →Coverage
We survey across the United Kingdom. Our own surveyors are densest across the Scottish Central Belt — Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirling — and the Leeds to York corridor, so those are the sites we can usually get to soonest.
Every application is submitted to a local planning authority with its own validation checklist and its own approach to protected trees. Find the requirements for your council.
Tell us about the site and we will come back with a fixed fee and a date. No charge for asking, and no charge for being told you need less than you thought.