Where we work

Tree surgery in Selby.

Tree surgeons covering Selby and the surrounding North Yorkshire villages: Barlby, Brayton, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Cawood and Riccall. Qualified, insured, free site visits, and we deal with the planning side for you.

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Tree surgery in Selby and the surrounding villages.

Selby is a market town on the River Ouse with a conservation area centred on the Abbey and the older streets running off Gowthorpe and Ousegate. Since April 2023 the planning authority is North Yorkshire Council, which took over from the former Selby District Council, so conservation-area notices and Tree Preservation Order consents are handled through North Yorkshire now. The older town-centre gardens and the riverside plots carry a fair number of mature trees, and TPOs turn up on the bigger garden specimens and boundary trees.

Most of the work around Selby is in the residential streets and the surrounding villages: Barlby and Brayton on the edge of town, then out to Sherburn-in-Elmet, Cawood, Riccall and Wistow. That tends to mean crown reductions and reshaping on garden trees, hedge work, storm clear-ups off the flatter, more exposed land, and the occasional larger removal where a tree has outgrown its spot or started lifting a drive or wall.

Selby sits a short run south-east of our Garforth base, on the A63 through Monk Fryston and Hambleton, so it is comfortably inside our regular area. If you are not sure whether your tree is protected, run the postcode through the checker or send us the address. We confirm the status with North Yorkshire Council before we quote, and handle any application on your behalf.

What we do

Services we offer in Selby

The full range of tree work for Selby homes and grounds, carried out by qualified, insured arborists. Every job starts with a free site visit and a written quote.

Climbing arborist on a tree cut back to its main stem during a sectional dismantle

Felling & dismantling

Where a tree is dead, dying, dangerous, or simply in the wrong place, we'll bring it down carefully and leave the site clean.

Climbing arborist pruning a tree canopy beside a tall stone building

Crown reduction & thinning

Shaping the canopy so the tree sits well with the light and the building it shares a garden with, done properly to BS3998.

Narrow-access stump grinder removing a tree stump in a garden, viewed from above

Stump grinding & removal

Complete tree stump removal below ground level, with a narrow-access machine that fits through a standard single gate.

Freelance climbing

Available for hire by other tree surgery contractors. Fifteen years on the rope, own kit, comfortable on complex dismantles and tight access work.

Storm-fallen tree collapsed across a garden fence beside a house

Emergency & storm damage

Fallen tree on your roof, your car, or blocking the lane? Call the mobile. Daylight response across LS postcodes, no call-out premium.

Mature tree being assessed for an arboricultural survey and report

Surveys & reports

Written arboricultural reports for planning applications, homebuyers and lenders, plus full TPO and conservation area consent handling.

Towable wood chipper set up on a driveway with brash ready to feed

Chipper hire

Tracked and towable machines available on a day or half-day rate, with a qualified operator included. No machine ownership, no maintenance headache.

Neatly cut and reshaped garden hedge after trimming

Hedge cutting & trimming

Hedge cutting and trimming: annual trims, reshaping and regular maintenance, always checked for nesting birds before we start, whatever the time of year.

Severely overgrown garden hedge with conifers grown well past the fence line

Hedge removal & reduction

Full hedge removal and hard reductions: overgrown leylandii and conifer hedges taken out roots and all, or cut right back, with a nesting-bird check before we start.

Also covered nearby

Around Selby (YO8) we also work across Barlby, Brayton, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Cawood, Riccall, Wistow, Monk Fryston and the surrounding North Yorkshire villages.

Nearby areas

York Garforth

Is your Selby tree protected?

North Yorkshire Council covers this area. Check a postcode against the national conservation-area and Tree Preservation Order registers, free and instant.

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Tree work in Selby

Questions we get asked

Who deals with tree permissions in Selby now?

North Yorkshire Council. It became the planning authority for the Selby area in April 2023 when Selby District Council was abolished. We check conservation-area and TPO status with North Yorkshire and handle any notice or consent application for you.

Do you cover the villages around Selby?

Yes: Barlby, Brayton, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Cawood, Riccall, Wistow and the surrounding North Yorkshire villages. We pass through on the A63 from Garforth, so the whole area is part of our usual patch.

Tree work in Selby?
Let's take a look.

Free site visit, written quote, no obligation. And we handle any council paperwork.

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