Hedge Cutting in Chorlton
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 two miles from our Stretford base.
Hedge Cutting for Chorlton Gardens
Privet is the signature hedge of Chorlton’s Edwardian terraces, with beech, holly and laurel around the larger gardens near the Green, and on Chorltonville the hedged front boundaries have been part of the garden-village look since the estate opened in 1911. We trim, reduce and reshape the lot, and every scrap of cuttings leaves with us.
We cover Chorlton and the surrounding area: Chorlton Green, Chorltonville, Beech Road, Barlow Moor, Chorlton Park and beyond (M21).
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What’s Included
Leylandii and other conifers need straight talking before anyone cuts them. Conifer hedges do not regrow from brown wood, so a towering screen behind a Chorlton semi cannot be halved and still look like a hedge afterwards. We reduce what will recover, and where a hedge is past saving we say so, because taking it out and replanting is sometimes the better spend.
- 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 Chorlton, FAQs
Cutting the hedge itself does not need conservation area consent. A tree standing in the hedge line is another matter: past a 75mm trunk at 1.5m up it needs six weeks’ notice to Manchester City Council before work. We walk the boundary and check before we quote so nothing gets cut that should not be.
Yes, within the limits of the plant. Conifers stay brown wherever you cut past the green growth, so we reduce to a height that keeps a living face and we are straight with you when a hedge is too far gone. Replacing it with something better suited to a small Chorlton garden is sometimes the wiser move.
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.
Yes, with a check first. Nesting season runs roughly February to August, and an active nest is protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, so damaging one is a criminal offence. The law doesn’t stop hedge cutting in those months, it stops cutting through live nests. We search the hedge before we start, and if there’s a nest in use we cut around it or book the job in again once the young have gone.
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.