Tree Surgeon in Crawley

Crawley is unusual among the towns we cover: most of it was laid out from scratch after it was designated a New Town in 1947, and the planners planted generously. Seventy-plus years later, those street and garden trees — oaks, limes, cherries, and a great many fast-growing conifers — have matured all at once. In neighbourhoods like Tilgate, Furnace Green, Southgate, and Pound Hill we regularly deal with trees that now dwarf the houses they were planted beside, blocking light and dropping limbs over fences.

The town’s history did not start in 1947, though. Crawley has eleven designated conservation areas, and the oldest corners are genuinely historic: Ifield Village, first designated in 1981 and extended twice since, wraps around a 13th-century church and village green on the north-west edge of town; the High Street conservation area (1986) protects the medieval hall houses and coaching inns of the old market town; and at Worth (1987), ancient trees protected by TPOs surround the Anglo-Saxon church of St Nicholas. Within any of these areas, the council must be notified six weeks before work on trees over 7.5 cm in diameter.

Crawley Borough Council manages its own TPOs and keeps an online register, and copies of individual orders are available from their protected trees team. We check every Crawley job against the register before quoting. The town is about 14 miles up the A23 from our Hassocks base — a 25-to-30-minute drive — so both scheduled work and urgent callouts are straightforward for us.