In Upton upon Severn, customers often need professional help with trees that have become too large for their position or need attention before wider garden improvements.
SPR Trees & Landscapes provides professional tree surgery in Upton upon Severn for homeowners, landlords and businesses needing help with established, overgrown or unwanted trees.
In Upton upon Severn, customers often need professional help with trees that have become too large for their position or need attention before wider garden improvements.
With over 15 years' experience, SPR can help with everything from routine pruning through to larger reductions, complete tree removals and stump grinding. Every job is quoted after seeing the tree, because access and what sits underneath it change the work as much as the tree itself does.
Where a tree has outgrown its position rather than its size, pruning is the measured answer: take the limbs that are actually in the way, leave the rest, and see how the garden feels before committing to anything larger.
Reduction is the standard remedy for a tree that has outgrown its position. It is not a permanent fix — the tree carries on growing — so it is worth asking at quotation roughly how long the work should hold before it needs looking at again.
Where a tree has outgrown its position beyond what reduction can sensibly correct, removal is the honest recommendation. How it comes down — felled, or dismantled in sections — depends on the room available underneath.
The stump can stay or go. It is worth deciding before the tree comes down, because access to the stump is often much easier while the site is still open than after everything else is back in place.
Large conifers are the most common reason people ring a tree surgeon, and they come with one rule that decides everything: cut a conifer back past the green growth and it will not regrow. The brown is permanent. Before agreeing a height, push a hand into the foliage and find out how deep the green actually goes — that depth, not the number you had in mind, is the limit of what can be taken off.
Upton upon Severn has a designated conservation area covering the riverside centre of the town. If a tree stands in a conservation area, six weeks' written notice has to be given to Malvern Hills District Council before work starts. That is a notice rather than an application — there is no approval to wait for beyond the six weeks. The council uses the time to decide whether to protect the tree with a Tree Preservation Order; if it does not, the work can go ahead and the authorisation lasts two years.
A tree already covered by a Tree Preservation Order is different again. That needs a formal consent application to Malvern Hills District Council, normally decided within eight weeks, and hearing nothing does not count as permission. Cutting down, topping, lopping or uprooting a protected tree without consent is a criminal offence, and not having checked is not a defence. Checking is free and takes one phone call, so it is worth doing before you book rather than after.
There is a size exemption worth knowing about. In a conservation area, trees under 75mm in stem diameter measured 1.5m above the ground fall outside the notice requirement, and the threshold rises to 100mm where the work is thinning to help other trees grow. That covers genuinely small stems — it will not cover anything you would call a tree surgery job.
Worth knowing if you read about it in the news: local government reorganisation was confirmed in July 2026, and Malvern Hills District Council will be replaced by South Worcestershire Council. That does not happen until 1 April 2028, and elections in May 2027 will generate coverage well before anything actually changes. Until vesting day, Malvern Hills District Council is still the authority to contact about a protected tree or a conservation area.
Because SPR Trees & Landscapes covers landscaping as well as tree work, a job that starts as a reduction can carry straight on into clearance, fencing or turfing without a second company, a second quote and a second set of access arrangements.
Where a hedge has trees growing up through it — which happens on any boundary left long enough — the two jobs are genuinely one job, and splitting them between a tree surgeon and a gardener tends to leave a gap in the middle that neither has quoted for.
Five guides written for Upton upon Severn homeowners, covering what the work costs, what drives the price and how to decide what you actually need.
Tree surgery carried out by SPR across Worcestershire and the surrounding counties.
“Jim and Dan did a brilliant job on my 90ft conifer. Its a lot safer now and I have more light in the garden...”
“The boys did an excellent job... pruned my trees back and remove one tree that had split...”
“The guys were prompt & proffesional removed an old ash for me thanks guys”
The cost depends on the tree, its size and position, access and the amount of work required. Contact SPR for a free quotation based on the actual job.
Yes. Professional tree pruning is one of SPR's core tree-surgery services.
Where appropriate, tree reduction can help manage excessive size while retaining the tree.
Yes. Tree removal is available where required.
Yes. Stump grinding is available and can be incorporated into the tree-removal project.
Yes. Contact us with details of the tree and what you would like to achieve.
Yes. SPR also provides hedge cutting, trimming and reduction.
Yes. Call or WhatsApp 07542 451291.
It depends on the tree. If it has a Tree Preservation Order you need written consent from Malvern Hills District Council. If it is in a conservation area you must give Malvern Hills District Council six weeks' notice. If neither applies, no permission is needed. We can point you at the right check before quoting.
Malvern Hills District Council — that is the local planning authority for tree matters. It is due to be replaced by South Worcestershire Council on 1 April 2028, but until then nothing changes.
SPR covers Worcester and the surrounding towns for tree surgery, hedge maintenance and wider landscaping.
SPR Trees & Landscapes, 6 Rose Avenue, Worcester, WR4 9PY
Need a tree pruned, reduced or removed in Upton upon Severn? Tell us what you need and we'll get back to you — usually the same day.
Prefer to talk? Call 07542 451291 or WhatsApp us.
