JM Tree Surgery & Fencing

Tree surgery and fencing in Bexhill.

We cover Bexhill-on-Sea most weeks, across TN39 and TN40, from the seafront and Cooden round to Little Common, Sidley and Pebsham. Crown work, fells, stump grinding, hedges, and close-board fencing built on site with properly treated posts. NPTC qualified, fully insured, and tidy when we leave. If you're looking for a tree surgeon in Bexhill who'll turn up when he said and leave the place cleaner than he found it, that's the job.

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Why hire local

Local matters

Bexhill is a coastal town and the coast does things to trees and fences that inland work doesn't prepare you for. The prevailing south-westerly comes in off the Channel with salt in it, and a fence run on the wrong spec is on borrowed time the day it goes up. The mature gardens inland round Cooden Drive, Dorset Road and Down Road are a different job again: Victorian and Edwardian plots with trees that were put in a century ago and haven't been reduced in decades.

A lot of the operators ranking for Bexhill are Hastings outfits who've copied their Hastings page and swapped the town name. We're not. We work Bexhill on its own terms. We know that TN39 and TN40 fall under Rother District Council, not Hastings Borough, and that the Section 211 notice goes to a different planning office. We know which aspects of the seafront take the worst of the south-westerly, and which street trees are old enough to be TPO'd without anyone having mentioned it. That's the reason the second call is usually a quicker conversation.

What we do

Work we do across Bexhill

Tree surgery in Bexhill

Crown reduction, thinning and lifting, sectional dismantling, felling where it's the right answer, stump grinding, hedge cutting and deadwooding. The Bexhill book leans heavy on horse chestnut reductions in the mature gardens inland, holm oak and Monterey pine on the exposed aspects round Cooden and Glyne Gap, and a steady run of sycamore, wild cherry and birch in the back gardens off Hastings Road and Down Road. Pittosporum and bay come up as screening hedges that have got away from their owners. We work to BS3998, check for nesting birds before we start between March and August, and file the Section 211 notice or TPO application with Rother District Council on your behalf.

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Fencing in Bexhill

Close-board built on site, panel fencing where it suits, post and rail, picket, gates and repairs. Coastal fencing is not the same job as inland fencing, and standard-spec timber doesn't last down here. We fit properly treated posts concreted in, gravel boards at the base and a capping rail on top, because that's the fence that handles the salt and the south-westerly without giving up in five years. The spring gales bring us a run of repair calls every year on the west-to-south aspects round Cooden, Little Common and the seafront; we'll tell you honestly when a repair is the right call and when the run has gone and is dragging the rest down with it.

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TPOs, conservation areas and Section 211 notices

Trees in conservation areas

Bexhill has several conservation areas, including the De La Warr area in the town centre and other pockets inland where the Victorian and Edwardian street layout has been kept intact. If a tree inside one of those conservation areas is over 75mm in diameter at 1.5 metres off the ground, you generally need to file a Section 211 notice with Rother District Council before any work starts. The council has six weeks to respond. We file the notice for you, with the method, the species and the reason, and we wait the clock out before we put a saw in.

A Tree Preservation Order is a separate process. A TPO'd tree needs a formal application to the council, regardless of the diameter or whether the tree sits inside a conservation area. We handle that paperwork too. Most of the time the answer comes back as a consent with conditions, and we work to those conditions on the day. If you're not sure whether your tree is TPO'd or sitting in a conservation area, send us the address and we'll check the council's planning map before we quote.

Where we work

Areas we work

Across Bexhill and the villages and districts around it. That covers:

Districts and nearby villages

  • Little Common
  • Cooden
  • Sidley
  • Glyne Gap
  • Pebsham
  • Ninfield
  • Catsfield

Postcodes

  • TN39
  • TN40

Just outside? Call us anyway. We'll travel for the right job.

Reviews

What Bexhill customers say

Had a close-board fence put up, about twelve metres with a gate. Properly treated posts concreted in, feather-edge, capping rail, the lot. Neat job, on time, cleared the old panels away. Recommended.
Claire M., Bexhill
We needed the front oak crown-reduced, TPO'd, and most people we asked wanted to talk us into felling. JM did the paperwork with Rother, reduced it properly, and it looks like they haven't been there. Worth the money.
David H., Battle

Got a tree or a fence in Bexhill?

Send a photo on WhatsApp or fill in the quote form and we'll come and have a look. No charge for the visit, no hard sell.

Get a quote Call 01424 000 000