How we look after our trees

As a landowner, we must meet certain obligations to trees on land which we own or maintain.

We assess the risk of our trees and carry out pruning works.

Assessing risk

We have our trees inspected on a cyclical basis to proactively identify any that are a high risk to people and property.

Any trees identified as being a high risk of causing serious harm or damage are either removed or pruned appropriately to eliminate the risk or reduce it.

Pruning works

We carry our pruning works on our trees in parks, recreation grounds, space around offices and community centres, cemeteries, and car parks:

for formative pruning
for cultural and historic reasons
to prevent nuisance

We will not usually carry out or permit pruning works to trees for:

overhanging branches
improving light / reducing shading issues
trees growing or being tall
carrying our works to third party trees
allowing third parties to fund works to council owned trees

How to report our trees

You can report a dangerous tree on our land, see trees on Elmbridge land.

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