Managing Director of Arboretum Internationale Ltd. Delivering arboricultural consultancy, training and specialist contracting worldwide.

Arboretum Internationale delivers a professional consultancy service addressing issues of tree safety, personal injury at work and the increasingly complicated field of trees within the planning system.

Our team work as expert witnesses guiding legal counsel in matters relating to injuries and property damage where there is an arboricultural involvement, liaising with architects, town planners, developer.

Arboretum Internationale has extensive experience of working with clients to achieve sensible compromise solutions for trees located in conservation areas, or subject to tree preservation orders and planning conditions throughout Scotland.

Hazard tree and tree safety inspections are an integral part of our normal tree reporting systems, in addition to which we provide a bespoke dedicated tree assessment under the auspices of QTRA (Quantified Tree Risk Assessment).

In recent years, we have become one of the leading exponents of veteran tree management, striving to retain old, often defective trees with invaluable and dependant flora and fauna in locations with high public use

Areas include:

Arboriculture (tree surgery) • Forestry accidents at work involving employees, third parties & /or property • Trees on development sites (planning & protection issues) • Trees & low-rise building subsidence.

Injury or damage caused by tree failure • Damage to trees by third parties • Illegal tree work operations (felling).