Reviews

We procured a bat survey from Arbtech in May of this year and are extremely pleased with the tenacity and responsive service we have received. Our surveyor was Martin and I have no hesitation in writing this recommendation as he undertook what proved to be a very successful report that concluded, as we always thought, that bats were not present. The Council’s Ecologist tried to make our client offer mitigation but Martin did not accept this and successfully argued the case for a favorable result. The only thing I would have expected in the report would be more pictures but this was quickly resolved.

Martin was first class and we wll be in touch again soon, no doubt, as soon as we have another site that requires his expertise.

Alan was very nice and helpful.

Bad news first: Mark was half an hour late to meet us at our site and because his phone had died, he did not phone ahead.
Good news: Apart from this, no problems at all. The quote was less than half of some of the others. Please pass on my regards to Mark. My wife and I enjoyed a wonderful evening watching the bats fly about and learned a great deal about them from him.

We required dusk and dawn bat surveys at our family home in Tonbridge, Kent. Our architect had provided a quotation from a company he normally uses and to be frank I nearly fell off my chair. This is only an extension to our home after all. Because of the bad weather recently, our survey was put back by almost 2 weeks, but it was £400 plus the VAT less than another local bat consultant…

The process was a little complicated to get the survey and we had to fill out a form and post it back as we don’t have a scanner and I didn’t want to pay over the phone. The survey itself went off without a hitch though. We now await the powers that be to grant us planning having spent a fortune on surveys of all kinds. One thing I would say is that Joanne (our surveyor) was very helpful and couldn’t do enough for us.

I live in Berkshire and was asked to provide a tree survey by my architect, to go with our planning application. I think that it was a bit much considering there was only one tree, but there was nothing we could do.The planning officers has spoken! I hired Arbtech tree surveyors to produce our report and was quite pleased with their quick and effective handling of our job. I would recommend them to a friend, and you can’t say much better than that. Alan was polite and helpful on site. I found him to be very responsive.

We got our planning through with permission to convert our 1930s barn, but it came with conditions for more yet more bat surveys which was very unexpected! To be fair to Mark he did say that this may happen and at the end of the day its the council’s decision. So overall we’re happy we have permission and Arbtech did a great job. Just a shame we need to fork out more money for these bats!!

Really nice and helpful. Rang ahead to say he would be delayed coming to site so we weren’t stood around waiting for him. Thanks Mark.

Arbtech are always very proficient and work with us closely for clients in the Surrey and Kent areas. The deal personally with planning officers and are able to often overcome quite complex design and tree interface issues with impressive ease. We always recommend Arbtech to clients and have never once had a reason not to continue to do so.

Rob’s greatest asset is his straight-talking manner. His integrity is second to none and through consultancy work he is able to put to very effective use, his ability to distill a solution to complex issues into a single, simple (and often humorous) sentence.