Manchester, UK

29 November 2017

Good Things Come in Trees

National Tree Week celebrated by VPS' Arboriculture Team

National Tree Week - the UK's biggest annual festival of trees - is underway, and the property and grounds maintenance experts VPS are highlighting The Tree Council's call to celebrate the value of trees, plant more and appreciate them all.

"Our trees can sometimes be taken for granted, but they need to be looked after and maintained, because they add so much to our well-being," says Heather Wicks, Head of Communications at VPS Grounds Services. "Not only do trees create a habitat for all sorts of wildlife, but they also help prevent flooding, clean our polluted air and water supplies and conserve energy. And of course, they provide us with food, fuel and building resources too."

VPS Grounds Services team undertakes all aspects of arboriculture, including health and safety inspections, tree planting, pollarding and also removal, where their expertise and quick response was in demand following Storm Brian's gale force winds last month.

They work with many housing associations and local authorities, requiring proactive liaison with tenants, residents and landowners and have just this month won the contract to carry out the annual health & safety tree inspections for a county council's 12 country parks.

Some time-lapse photography and drone video footage of tree maintenance appears on their twitter page @VPSGrounds

For a list of Tree Week events across the UK, check The Tree Council's website.

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About VPS Grounds Services

They undertake all aspects of arboriculture, including tree planting, pollarding and removal. Other works include hedge maintenance and reduction, felling, stump removal and coppicing works, along with urgent, high priority and call-out works.

As Arboricultural Association Approved Contractors, VPS Grounds Services offer a safe, compliant service delivery. They have a proven track record in undertaking a variety of arboricultural operations in urban and rural environments and have gained valuable expertise in diverse and varied situations. They adhere to safe working methods and the thorough daily risk assessments undertaken prior to each operation, ensure that controls are in place to mitigate any potential risk to the public, staff, or public property.

They offer advice on:

• The health of trees;

• Their relationship with and their effects on our ever-growing urban environment;

• Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs) and Conservation Areas; and

• Health and Safety Tree Surveys, decay detection and BS5837 reports.

They also carry out Local Planning Authority applications for proposed work to trees with TPOs or located in Conservation Areas.

They are fully equipped and experienced in the provision of traffic management for the safe delivery of tree works adjacent to the public highway and are National Highways Sector Scheme 18 accredited. Arboricultural teams are highly skilled and fully certified for all operations.

https://www.vpsgroup.com/services/grounds-services/

About VPS

VPS is a leading service provider for the protection of people, property and assets on a temporary or emergency basis. It leads the European vacant property services market, providing a full suite of specialist solutions across the complete property lifecycle, as well as offering a wide range of Property Services for occupied property, from locks and glazing to grounds services and remote site security.

Activities cover security solutions (including its SmartTower CCTV product range, steel screens, manned guarding and live-in guardians), and property management (clearing, cleaning, waste disposal, maintenance and grounds services). Key customers include social housing organisations and a wide range of commercial customers, such as property managers, retailers, industrial, construction and infrastructure companies.

VPS Group has more than 1800 employees, 5,000 customers and manages over 30,000 properties across the UK and mainland Europe. We take care of property worth over £3bn.

http://www.vpsgroup.com