JM Tree Surgery & Fencing

Tree surgery and fencing in Mayfield.

We work Mayfield and the villages around it across TN20, from the High Street and the village conservation area out to Five Ashes, Rotherfield, Mark Cross and Frant. Crown work on the mature oak and sweet chestnut behind the timber-framed houses, fells and dismantles where they're the right answer, ash dieback removals, stump grinding, hedge cutting, and post-and-rail and close-board fencing built on site with properly treated posts. NPTC qualified, fully insured, and tidy when we leave. Mayfield is mostly conservation area and the work has to fit that.

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Why hire local

Local matters

Mayfield is one of the prettier Wealden villages and almost the entire High Street is designated conservation area. Old timber-framed buildings, mature back gardens, and TPO'd trees common across the older plots. The species mix is classic Weald: mature English oak, beech and sweet chestnut, with hornbeam and ash on the field margins (and the ash going or gone, like everywhere else). The higher ground out toward Mark Cross and Five Ashes shares geology with Crowborough and the Ashdown Forest fringe: sandy and acidic soils, well-drained, with Scots pine and silver birch joining the mix. Country estates and equestrian properties are common around the wider catchment, which drives long post-and-rail runs.

Mayfield falls under Wealden District Council, the same authority as Crowborough and Heathfield. We know the planning portal, we know the conservation area boundary, and we know to file a Section 211 notice on a TPO'd oak in a Mayfield back garden before any cuts. Rotherfield overlaps with the Crowborough catchment on the north side. We work the Wealden patch routinely, and the second visit is usually a quicker conversation.

What we do

Work we do across Mayfield

Tree surgery in Mayfield

Crown reduction, thinning and lifting, sectional dismantling, felling where it's the right answer, stump grinding, hedge cutting and deadwooding. The Mayfield book is heavy on mature English oak and beech in the older village gardens, sweet chestnut on the woodland margins out toward Mark Cross and Frant, hornbeam on the field boundaries, and a steady run of ash dieback removals on the rural edges. The higher sandier ground toward Five Ashes and Rotherfield brings Scots pine and silver birch into the mix, the same picture as Crowborough. Most Mayfield village jobs need Section 211 paperwork because the conservation area is so wide; we file it for you. 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 Wealden District Council on your behalf.

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Fencing in Mayfield

Close-board built on site, panel fencing where it suits, post and rail, picket, stock fencing, gates and repairs. Mayfield has a strong country-estate and equestrian character around the wider catchment, which means a big share of the fencing work round here is post-and-rail rather than close-board: long runs round paddocks, along driveways and on country-estate boundaries, often a hundred metres or more in a job. Wealden ground varies plot to plot, drier and sandier on the higher ground out to Five Ashes and Mark Cross, with clay pockets in the lower-lying parts. We use properly treated posts concreted in, with a kickboard at the base where the run holds horses, and a capping rail across the top on close-board where a garden boundary takes wind down the valley. We'll quote what's right for the run, not the cheapest version of it.

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TPOs, conservation areas and Section 211 notices

Trees in conservation areas

Almost the whole of Mayfield village High Street and the gardens running off it sit inside the conservation area boundary. If a tree inside the conservation area is over 75mm in diameter at 1.5 metres off the ground, you generally need to file a Section 211 notice with Wealden 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 and it's common round Mayfield, partly because the older village gardens carry orders on the veteran oaks, beeches and sweet chestnuts. A TPO'd tree needs a formal application to Wealden, regardless of the diameter or whether the tree sits inside the conservation area. We handle that paperwork too. Wealden's portal is the same one we use for Crowborough and Heathfield, so we know what they want and how to phrase it. 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, sitting in the conservation area, or both, send us the address and we'll check Wealden's planning map before we quote.

Where we work

Areas we work

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

Districts and nearby villages

  • Five Ashes
  • Rotherfield
  • Mark Cross
  • Frant
  • Wadhurst
  • Burwash

Postcodes

  • TN20

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

Reviews

What Mayfield 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 Mayfield?

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.

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