Gloucester

Fifteen minutes from our yard, and on our crews' daily routes. Tree surgery, hedge cutting, grounds maintenance, and landscaping for Gloucester's homes, businesses, and public sites.

15 Minutes from Our Shurdington Base

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Gloucester sits a quarter of an hour from our Shurdington base, and our teams are in and around the city most working days. Silver Tree Services covers the lot: Victorian gardens in Kingsholm and tight terraces around the centre, family gardens across Abbeydale, Abbeymead, and Quedgeley, the city’s churches and historic sites, and the offices, schools, and managed properties that contract our commercial teams.

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Rated 5 ★★★★★ by the people we work for.

What we do in Gloucester

Tree surgery, reductions, felling, and dismantling to BS3998:2010, sized for city gardens
Hedge trimming, garden hedges, boundaries, and overgrown leylandii recovered
Stump grinding, with narrow-access machines for terraced and gated gardens
Landscaping, patios, turf, fencing, and planting
Commercial grounds maintenance and commercial tree surgery for Gloucester businesses, schools, and managed sites

Vale ground, vale trees

Gloucester is Severn Vale: heavy clay that holds water, growth that romps away in a wet spring, and willows, poplars, and alders thriving near the river, the canal, and the brooks that thread the city. Those species grow fast, shed limbs readily, and need managing on shorter cycles than the beeches up on the hill. Clay also means subsidence questions when large trees stand close to houses, and we give straight advice on what’s actually risky versus what an insurer’s letter is just being cautious about. Flood-plain ground takes machinery badly in the wrong season; we plan access and timing so your lawn isn’t the casualty of your tree work.

Heritage in the middle of it

The cathedral quarter and the city’s conservation areas put protections on many of Gloucester’s best trees: six weeks’ written notice to the council before works in conservation areas, and Tree Preservation Orders carrying fines up to £20,000 per tree elsewhere. Silver Tree Services checks every Gloucester address before quoting and handles the paperwork with the city council as part of the job, and our experience maintaining churchyards for the Church of England travels well in a city with this much consecrated ground.

Why choose Silver Tree Services

Silver Tree Services has traded for over 20 years from Shurdington, Cheltenham, with 30+ qualified staff across seven specialist teams, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification, ARB Approved Contractor status, and SMAS SSIP accreditation. Crews are NPTC-certificated with IPAF and CSCS where work requires it, RAMS are produced per site, DBS-checked operatives are available for sensitive settings, and public and employers’ liability insurance covers every job. The client list, NHS, Gloucestershire Police, Stroud District Council, Savills, the Church of England, is the vetting evidence.

Areas of Gloucester we cover

The whole city and its edges: Kingsholm, Barton, Tredworth, Linden, Tuffley, Podsmead, Abbeydale, Abbeymead, Barnwood, Hucclecote, Longlevens, Quedgeley, Hardwicke, Hempsted, Churchdown, Tewkesbury and more.

Guide prices in Gloucester

Commercial work is quoted to specification. For residential work, crown work, removals and stump grinding usually start from £350, garden maintenance from £200, and landscaping from around £20 per square metre for lawns, £30 for decking and £50 for patios. Any travel consideration is shown in the written quote, never added after. Get in touch to have your job priced properly, our quotes are always free.

Frequently Asked Questions About Our Gloucester Services

Frequently asked.

Do you cover all areas of Gloucester?

Yes. Silver Tree Services works across the whole city, from Kingsholm and the centre out through Barnwood, Hucclecote, and Longlevens to Quedgeley, Hardwicke, and the villages on the city’s edge. The yard at Shurdington is fifteen minutes away and crews pass through Gloucester daily, so jobs are scheduled alongside nearby work rather than waiting for a special trip, which keeps both lead times and prices down.

Are trees near the Severn or canal different to manage?

Practically, yes. Willows, poplars, and alders dominate Gloucester’s wet ground, and they grow fast, take heavy water weight, and shed limbs more readily than slower species, so they suit a shorter management cycle, typically pollarding or reduction every few years rather than crisis work every decade. Silver Tree Services manages riverside and canalside trees across Gloucester with timing planned around ground conditions, because flood-plain clay and heavy machinery are a bad mix in winter.

Can a tree cause subsidence on Gloucester's clay soil?

It can contribute, because clay shrinks as trees draw moisture in dry summers, and Gloucester sits on plenty of it. But the answer is rarely automatic removal: species, distance, foundation depth, and history all matter, and over-reaction causes its own problems through ground heave. Silver Tree Services gives honest advice on Gloucester trees near buildings, and where insurers are involved, works alongside their requirements with reports through our tree survey team.

Do I need council permission for tree work in Gloucester?

In the city’s conservation areas, including around the cathedral quarter, the council needs six weeks’ written notice before tree works, and trees under Tree Preservation Orders need consent, with fines up to £20,000 per tree for unauthorised work. Silver Tree Services checks protections on every Gloucester quote and submits the notices and applications for you, so the legal side is handled before any work is booked.

Do you take on commercial grounds contracts in Gloucester?

Yes. Silver Tree Services maintains commercial grounds, business parks, schools, healthcare sites, and managed residential developments, across Gloucester on planned contracts, with RAMS, accredited teams, and one consolidated invoice. Clients across the county include the NHS, Gloucestershire Police, and Stroud District Council, so procurement-grade vetting evidence is ready, and our commercial tree and survey teams sit under the same contract where sites want one provider.

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Gloucester ground,
properly kept.

From a single stump to a city-centre contract, the crew’s fifteen minutes away. Tell us what you need.

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Rated 5 ★★★★★ by the people we work for.

What we do in Gloucester

Vale ground, vale trees

Heritage in the middle of it

Why choose Silver Tree Services

Areas of Gloucester we cover

Guide prices in Gloucester

Frequently Asked Questions About Our Gloucester Services

Frequently asked.

Gloucester ground, properly kept.

Silver Tree Services

Gloucester ground,
properly kept.