Hedge Cutting in Bowdon
Hedge cutting with tree surgery kit behind it, from a tidy annual trim to a 30 foot leylandii row cut down in sections. All the green waste goes with us when we leave. Around seven miles from our Stretford base.
Hedge Cutting for Bowdon Gardens
Hedges carry a lot of the privacy in Bowdon: beech, yew, laurel and holly around the villa gardens, long runs on the corner plots, and leylandii planted decades ago that now stand taller than the houses they were meant to screen. We trim, reduce and reshape all of them, from a single front hedge in Bowdon Vale to the full boundary of a converted villa’s shared grounds.
We cover Bowdon and the surrounding area: Bowdon Vale, The Devisdale, Ashley Heath, Dunham Massey, Oldfield Brow and beyond (WA14).
Read more about our hedge cutting service, or see all our tree work in Bowdon.
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What’s Included
Hedge cutting sits outside the conservation area tree rules, which surprises people in a village this regulated. The six-week notice applies to trees, not hedges, but a tree that has grown up inside a hedge line can still count as a tree in the council’s eyes, and Bowdon boundaries are full of them: hollies, yews and self-set sycamores hiding in the run. We walk the hedge before quoting, point out anything the council would treat as a tree, and sort the notice if that part needs work.
- Maintenance trims that keep garden hedges square, dense and tidy
- Hard height and width reductions on hedges that have got away
- Overgrown leylandii and conifer rows taken down in sections, chainsaw and rope work included
- Straight answers on conifers before we quote: brown wood will not regrow
- Full hedge removals, with stump grinding for the stumps and roots
- Nest checks before every cut in season, clippings cleared and taken away
How It Works
Hedge Cutting in Bowdon, FAQs
Not for the hedge itself, the conservation area rules cover trees rather than hedges. The catch is a tree standing in the hedge line, which the council treats like any other conservation area tree, notice and all. We check the whole run before cutting so nothing protected gets touched by mistake.
Often, yes, with a nest check first. Nesting season runs roughly February to August and active nests are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, so we inspect the hedge before any cutting in those months. If we find a live nest we leave that stretch, finish the rest, and come back once the birds have fledged.
In height, a long way. A 30 foot leylandii can be brought back to eight or ten foot by cutting the tops out in sections, and it will green over the new top within a season or two. The sides are the catch: leylandii won’t regrow from brown wood, so the faces can only be trimmed back to live green growth. If the hedge has grown too wide for the space, no amount of cutting fixes that, and we’ll say so before you spend money on it.
That is exactly the work we’re set up for. Once the stems have thickened into trunks and the height is past 15 foot or so, it stops being a hedgetrimmer job and becomes tree work: sectional cutting, ropes and someone comfortable running a chainsaw at height. One thing worth knowing: in a conservation area, any stem wider than 75mm measured at 1.5m up needs six weeks’ written notice to the council before work, and an old hedge row can easily include stems that size. We check that for you and handle the paperwork.
Always, and it’s in the price, not an extra. Hedge work makes a surprising volume of waste, especially a conifer reduction where whole tops are coming off. Everything gets chipped or loaded, the lawn is raked, the paths are swept, and you’re left with a hedge, not a hedge plus a mountain of clippings.