In Upton upon Severn, customers often need help with large boundary hedges, conifers and Leylandii that have become difficult to maintain without professional equipment.
SPR Trees & Landscapes provides professional hedge maintenance in Upton upon Severn for homeowners, landlords and businesses needing help with routine cutting, shaping or heavily overgrown hedges.
In Upton upon Severn, customers often need help with large boundary hedges, conifers and Leylandii that have become difficult to maintain without professional equipment.
With over 15 years' experience, SPR can help with everything from regular hedge trimming through to substantial reductions on large conifer and Leylandii hedges. Every hedge is quoted after seeing it, because length, height, width, species and access all change the job.
Hedge cutting stops being a homeowner job at the point where the kit changes — powered hedge trimmers at height, platforms, and enough manpower to clear as you go. That is usually the moment people ring rather than buy another ladder.
A long or tall hedge is shaped with a line and a level rather than by eye, and with the right reach kit the top comes out straight in one pass. It is the difference between a hedge that looks cut and one that looks maintained.
Substantial reduction on a large hedge is a machinery and manpower job rather than a hand-tool one, and the arisings are the surprising part — a long conifer hedge reduced by a few feet produces a genuinely large volume of material that has to go somewhere.
Large conifer hedges need proper reach equipment and somewhere for the material to go. The volume is what catches people out — a long hedge reduced by two or three feet fills more than most people expect.
Tall Leylandii need reach equipment, and the check that matters happens before the machine starts — how deep the green goes on the top and on each face. That measurement decides what the job can achieve.
The rule most people have half-heard is the "two metre" one, and it is worth stating properly because it is almost always repeated wrong. There is no legal maximum height for a hedge. You are not obliged to keep a hedge at two metres and nobody can make you cut one simply because it is taller than that. What the two-metre figure actually marks is the threshold at which a neighbour can complain to Malvern Hills District Council under Part 8 of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003.
For a complaint to qualify, the hedge has to be a line of two or more evergreens over two metres tall that acts as a barrier to light or access. That means conifers, laurel and privet are in scope; beech and hornbeam, being deciduous, are not, and neither is a single tree however large. The neighbour has to have tried to sort it out directly first, and Malvern Hills District Council charges a fee to take the complaint on — fees vary widely between councils and change each April, so it is worth checking the current figure rather than relying on what someone was charged elsewhere.
If Malvern Hills District Council does issue a remedial notice, there are firm limits on what it can require. It cannot order the hedge to be reduced below two metres, and it cannot order it removed. It can require a reduction to some height at or above two metres and require that height to be maintained, and the notice is registered as a local land charge, so it stays with the property when it is sold.
Nesting birds are the other thing worth getting right, because the common version is not quite the law. It is not an offence to cut a hedge during the nesting season. The offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 is intentionally taking, damaging or destroying a nest while it is in use or being built. The practical consequence is that the hedge gets checked before the machine starts, and if there is an active nest in it, that section waits.
If someone has told you the law forbids hedge cutting in spring and summer, they are quoting a farming regulation. The Management of Hedgerows (England) Regulations 2024 apply to agricultural land and specifically do not apply to a hedge in a domestic garden.
One genuine catch: a hedge itself cannot carry a Tree Preservation Order, but a tree growing up within one can, and an old hedge that has become a line of trees can be covered too. A protected tree needs written consent from Malvern Hills District Council at any size — there is no small-tree exemption for a TPO. If the property is in a conservation area, a tree in the hedge needs six weeks' notice unless its stem is under 75mm across, measured 1.5m up. The hedge around it stays unrestricted either way. Where a boundary is a mix of hedge and self-sown trees, that is worth checking before work starts.
Hedge work is often the first stage of something larger. Doing it before turf, fencing or paving goes in means the arisings fall on ground that is about to be worked anyway — and because SPR also handles the landscaping, the stages can be planned as one project rather than co-ordinated between two firms.
It is worth mentioning the trees when you ring about the hedges. Combining them usually reduces the total, and it means one conversation about access, timing and where the arisings go rather than two.
Five guides written for Upton upon Severn homeowners, covering what hedge work costs, what drives the price and how to decide what you actually need.
Hedge cutting and reduction carried out by SPR across Worcestershire and the surrounding counties.
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The cost depends on the hedge's length, height, width, condition, access and the amount of work required. Contact SPR for a free quotation.
Yes. Professional hedge cutting, trimming and shaping are core SPR services.
Yes. We can assess large overgrown hedges and discuss appropriate height reduction.
Yes. Leylandii hedge cutting and reduction form part of our hedge-maintenance service.
Depending on the hedge and its condition, we can assess excessive width and discuss the appropriate work.
Yes. We provide professional cutting and reduction for large conifer hedges.
Yes. SPR also provides tree pruning, reductions, removals and stump grinding.
Yes. Call or WhatsApp 07542 451291.
No. There is no legal maximum height for a garden hedge, and you cannot be made to cut one just for being tall. Two metres is the point at which a neighbour can complain to Malvern Hills District Council about an evergreen hedge that blocks their light or access — and even then the council cannot require it below two metres or order it removed.
Yes, provided there is no active nest in the section being cut. It is not an offence to cut a hedge in summer; the offence is damaging a nest that is in use or being built. We check before starting and leave any part with an active nest until the birds have finished. The 1 March to 31 August ban you may have read about applies to farm hedgerows, not garden ones.
SPR covers Worcester and the surrounding towns for hedge maintenance, tree surgery and wider landscaping.
SPR Trees & Landscapes, 6 Rose Avenue, Worcester, WR4 9PY
Need a hedge cut, shaped or reduced in Upton upon Severn? Tell us what you need and we'll get back to you — usually the same day.
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