Tools open to all users
Tree Planting Guide
A comprehensive guide to planting and caring for trees from finding suitable locations to aftercare.
Seed gathering guide (Tree Council)
Tree Warden Tree offer Conditions
Landowner Tree Offer Conditions
Risk assessment for Tree Planting and other events
Tree Nursery resources
Guide to root trainers and air pruning.
ASH DIEBACK
(Hymenoscyphus fraxineus.)
Ash Dieback Government Guidance.
The ash dieback hub page on GOV.UK. is now live.
The page gives an overview of FC/GOV advice on ash dieback disease and management and signposts to key sources of guidance, including from FC, Tree Council, FISA, NTSG, AA, FR and NE. It has been kept succinct to avoid replication of other sources and should function as an ideal landing page for anyone enquiring about ash dieback.
The page address is: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/managing-ash-dieback-in-england
Ash Dieback Guidance for tree owners
Tree Council documents on Ash Dieback
The Living Ash Project aims to identify a large and diverse number of ash trees with good tolerance to ash dieback.
Other Tree Diseases and guides
Forestry Commission tree disease guide
Forest Research Tree Pest & Diseases Resources
Forestry Commission tree Protection Guide
Forestry Commission Tree Health News, month by month list
Oak Processionary Moth
Forest Research OPM public information poster
Other links
Suffolk parishes: on Suffolk Infolink. Find your parish council including the contact details of parish clerk or chair where they publish them (some don’t).
Also location of all parishes in Suffolk on a map – page by page.
Enter the name of the parish or it’s post code into the search box.
Many other details also available.
Vegetation and Trees Overhanging the Highway–Guidance from Suffolk Highways on the responsibilities of the owner or occupier of a property bordering a road or footpath. Detailed table of distances required for trees near the highway.
Regulations
Hedgerows
The main legislation covering hedgerows is called the Hedgerows Regulations 1997. This is a very lengthy document which doesn’t give very much protection.
The Hedgerows Regulations, 1997: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1160/contents/made
Updated Guidance, 2019: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/countryside-hedgerows-regulation-and-management
Reporting a tree or hedge affecting the highway
Reporting a tree or hedge affecting the highway
Notes ……… Assessment Form
Roadsides nature reserves in Suffolk (map)
STWN partnership tree planting
Background Reading
The Tree Council Policy Digest – June 2019
An in-depth report on government tree policy
Tree ID guide app for your smartphone
Poster for identifying trees by their buds in winter
Members area
This section is open to registered Tree Wardens, Parish Clerks, Suffolk local Authority officers and certain other approved users.
In order to access this section, please Log In or Register on the site. If you are registering, your application to access this section may be take a few days to be approved.