Hedge Trimming in Ashton-in-Makerfield
Sharp, tidy hedge cutting. Hedges shaped, reduced or rescued, with every scrap of green waste taken away. Around five miles from our Leigh base.
Hedge Trimming for Ashton-in-Makerfield Gardens
Ashton-in-Makerfield’s hedges range from tight privet along the terraced streets to conifer screens on the estates and big mixed native hedges out towards North Ashton and Downall Green, where gardens meet farmland. We trim, shape and reduce them all, and every scrap of clippings goes in the van, not in your bin.
We cover Ashton-in-Makerfield and the surrounding area: Bryn, Garswood, Stubshaw Cross, Town Green, North Ashton and beyond (WN4).
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What’s Included
The rescue jobs are the ones we see most: conifers past head height and heading for the gutters, privet swallowing the front path, hawthorn nobody has touched in years. We cut back hard where the species allows, shape it properly, and set a sensible schedule so it never gets to that state again.
- Hedge cutting, shaping and regular maintenance trims
- Height and width reductions, including conifer reduction
- Overgrown hedge rescues and removals
- Conifer, leylandii, privet, laurel, beech, box and yew
- Nesting bird checks before every cut
- All green waste removed and disposed of
How It Works
Hedge Trimming in Ashton-in-Makerfield, FAQs
Yes, a hedge blocking the footway is the owner’s responsibility, and Wigan Council can require it to be cut back if it obstructs pedestrians. We trim it back behind the boundary line and take the waste away, which usually settles the matter in an afternoon.
Yes, tall mixed hedges of hawthorn and blackthorn towards Downall Green and North Ashton are a different job from a garden privet, but we’re equipped for them. We check for nesting birds first and time bigger reductions outside the nesting season.
Yes, but carefully. It’s an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act to damage or destroy an active bird’s nest, and the main nesting season runs from March to August. Hedge cutting isn’t banned in those months, but the hedge has to be checked first. We inspect before every cut, and if we find an active nest we’ll leave that section and come back once the birds have fledged.
Height can usually come down a long way, and topping a tall leylandii to bring it back under control is no bother, but the sides are the limit. Conifers and leylandii won’t regrow from brown wood, so cutting the faces back too hard leaves permanent bare patches. We’ll look at the hedge and tell you straight what a conifer reduction will achieve, and if removal and replanting is honestly the better option, we’ll say so.
Yes. Green waste removal is included in every hedge cutting quote. Clippings, trimmings and any larger branches are cleared, loaded and disposed of properly, and we sweep up before we leave.