BS5837 Tree Survey & Arboricultural Planning Package — Marple Road Bus Infrastructure Scheme, Stockport

Client: Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council


Project Overview: Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council was delivering bus infrastructure improvements at Marple Road and Dooley Lane — including footway widening, raised kerb installations, and left turn lane extensions. The highway corridor was lined with mature trees whose root protection areas extended into the proposed works footprint.


Our Role: Urban Tree Management delivered the complete BS5837 arboricultural planning package — tree survey, Tree Constraints Plan in AutoCAD at 1:500 scale, Arboricultural Impact Assessment, Tree Protection Plan specifying Construction Exclusion Zones, and Arboricultural Method Statement for the construction team.


Findings & Recommendations:

  • 16 individual trees and two groups surveyed across full works corridor
  • Tree Constraints Plan produced in AutoCAD compatible with council highways drawing set
  • CEZs specified for all retained trees — ground protection and supervision requirements detailed
  • AMS produced in plain language for site team


Outcome: Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council received a complete, professionally produced BS5837 planning package — with the Tree Constraints Plan allowing the design team to refine the works specification and reduce root protection area incursion before construction began.

BS5837 Tree Surveys for Highway & Transport Infrastructure — Greater Manchester & North West

Urban Tree Management provides the full range of BS5837 arboricultural planning services for highway improvement schemes, transport infrastructure projects, and local authority capital works programmes across Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire, and the wider North West — delivering technically robust, AutoCAD-drawn outputs that integrate directly into highways drawing sets and meet local authority planning and highways requirements.


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