Tree surgery in Pudsey & Farsley.

Tree surgery in Pudsey and Farsley.

Pudsey, Farsley and Stanningley make up the LS28 belt between Leeds and Bradford — an old worsted-and-woollen district whose history runs back to the Domesday Book, and it shows in the housing. There is a dense mix of Victorian stone terraces, mill-workers' cottages, inter-war semis and later estates, with established gardens throughout and a good number of mature street and boundary trees: sycamore, lime, ash, horse chestnut and the cherries that line a lot of the older roads. Pudsey Park, just off the town centre, is one of the most visited parks in Leeds after Roundhay — a Green Flag site of around 7.5 hectares with mature parkland trees and a bowling green where a lake and bandstand once stood — and the streets backing on to it carry some of the larger specimens in the area.

Both Pudsey and Farsley have their own conservation areas designated by Leeds City Council. The Farsley conservation area (first designated in 1987 and reviewed in 2010) takes in the historic mill-town core around Town Street and Sunny Bank Mills, while Pudsey's covers the older streets around the town centre. Inside either of those, six weeks' written notice to the council is required before most tree work can begin, and Tree Preservation Orders turn up on the mature trees in the older gardens. The tight terraced layout in the conservation areas means a lot of the work is sectional dismantling, rigging and crown reduction rather than straight felling — there is rarely room to drop anything whole, and much of it is over walls, ginnels and neighbouring yards.

Pudsey sits just west of Leeds, a short run from our Garforth base, so the whole of LS28 — Farsley, Stanningley, Calverley and the edge of Bramley — is firmly inside our usual patch. We carry out the full range of work here: crown reductions, deadwooding, stump grinding, hedge work, felling where it is genuinely needed, and same-day response for storm-damaged or unstable trees. Jack handles consent applications to Leeds City Council from start to finish. If you are not sure whether your tree is protected, use the postcode checker or send us the address and we will look it up before we quote.