Goodnestone · Chillenden · Knowlton · CT3
Hedge cutting and reduction, plus tree services: pruning, crown thinning, crown raising, crown reduction, deadwooding. Across Goodnestone, Chillenden, Knowlton, Rowling and out towards Wingham and Nonington. Fully insured. Parkland-edge and field-boundary species handled correctly. Six-week conservation-area notice filed on your behalf where it applies.
If a hedge or tree of yours is growing over a road, lane or path, the council can require you to cut it back within the time the notice allows (14 to 28 days) under section 154 of the Highways Act 1980. Read what the notice means and what to do.
Send me a photo and the date on your notice. I will quote and prioritise your job so it is done inside your deadline. Get a quote
What I do
Specified for the chalky boulder clay and gently rolling farmland around Goodnestone, and the mix of parkland-edge, church-adjacent and cottage-garden hedges that make up the village. Hedge cutting and reduction for the boundary; pruning, crown thinning, raising, reduction and deadwooding for the mature trees behind it.
Annual or twice-yearly cuts on hawthorn, hornbeam, yew, field maple and beech. Clean formal lines close to the church and Park, looser field-boundary style further out, all arisings cleared.
See pricing & timingBringing overgrown Leylandii and laurel screens on newer plots back into proportion, done in stages so the hedge doesn't die back to bare wood.
How I reduce safelyPruning, crown thinning, crown raising, crown reduction and deadwooding on the mature trees behind the hedge. TPO and conservation-area notice handled for you, especially close to Goodnestone Park and the church.
See tree workThe promise
I don't ask for payment until you have walked the hedge with me and you are happy. If I haven't done what I said I would, I put it right or you owe me nothing. No deposits, no upfront, no chasing.
Anyone on a state pension, automatically. No card, no proof of anything, just mention it when you book. Honour system.
Used me before? Your next job over £500 gets 10% off, no time limit, no asking. Logged when the quote goes out, you do not need to remind me.
Why local matters
Goodnestone sits on chalky boulder clay in gently rolling east Kent farmland, roughly 7 miles southeast of Canterbury and 2 miles south of Wingham. The civil parish takes in the villages of Chillenden and Knowlton and the hamlets of Rowling and Tickenhurst. It's a small, old estate village built around Goodnestone Park, a country house begun in 1704 by Sir Brook Bridges, whose gardens are open to the public and whose owners once welcomed Jane Austen as a regular visitor when her brother Edward married into the Bridges family.
I work to that setting. Native hawthorn, hornbeam and field maple for the working field boundaries around Chillenden and Knowlton. Formal yew and clipped hedging close to the Grade I listed Holy Cross Church and the Park itself. And a tape measure on any stem approaching the 75mm conservation threshold before I touch it, because the church and Park sit right at the heart of the village.
Near the Park or the church?
Goodnestone Park is a Registered Park and Garden of Special Historic Interest, and Holy Cross Church next to it is Grade I listed. Neither designation stops routine hedge cutting, but any tree with a stem over 75mm at chest height needs six weeks' written notice to Dover District Council before pruning. I file the section-211 notice on your behalf, included in every quote.
Recent work
A running log of jobs around Goodnestone, Chillenden, Knowlton and Wingham. Updated as each one finishes.
Send a couple of photos and a postcode. Same-day fixed price and the next available date.