About | Margate & Hedges

What I do

I cut hedges. I reduce overgrown ones. I remove the ones that have to go. And I plant new ones — with the right species for Thanet's thin, alkaline, salt-blown topsoil, not whatever the nursery has in stock.

That's it. No tree surgery, no lawn care, no fencing, no garden-services bundle. Hedges are a craft worth being good at; I keep the focus narrow so I am.

Why local matters here

Almost all of Cliftonville and most of the Old Town sits inside a Thanet DC conservation area — Margate (1978), Margate Seafront (1997), Northdown (1985), plus the Cliftonville cluster of Dalby Square, Clifton Place & Grotto Gardens, Ethelbert Road, Norfolk/Warwick/Surrey Road, Northdown Road, and more. Any hedge with a stem over 75mm at chest height triggers a six-week planning notice. The salt-spray envelope reaches 50m from the shore for the worst of it and 200m for the useful aerosol drop-off — that changes which species live and which get burned back to the wood every winter. An out-of-area contractor won't know any of that without being told.

I work this patch. The conservation-area paperwork is included in every quote. The salt-line species matrix is built into how I recommend replants. And the nesting-season protocol on jobs near Thanet Coast SSSI or the Sandwich & Pegwell Bay Ramsar is the default, not the exception.

How I work

Photos and postcode for an initial quote. Most routine cuts can be priced from photos. Reductions and removals usually need a short site visit — free, no obligation.
Fixed-price quotes. No day-rate creep. If the job runs longer than expected, that's my problem, not yours.
Conservation-area paperwork handled. Where your address needs a section-211 notice, I file it. Cost included in the quote.
All arisings cleared. I carry an Environment Agency upper-tier waste-carrier registration (£154/3yr). Clippings go to Manston Road HWRC (CT9 4LX) or Richborough (CT13 9NW), never burned on site.
Bank transfer or cash. Invoice or receipt either way.

What you won't get

A salesman trying to upsell you a "garden makeover".
A quote that doubles when I arrive.
A botched cut to compensate for not telling you the hedge actually needs a reduction.
Lectures about the cosmic importance of compost.

My promise

Three things you can hold me to on every job:

A proper job, or you don't pay. No payment until you've walked the hedge with me and you're happy.
10% off for pensioners. Anyone on a state pension. Honour system — just mention it when you book.
10% off repeat jobs over £500. Used me before? Your next bigger job gets 10% off, no time limit, no need to ask.

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