Where we work.

The town

Faversham's historic core, Abbey Street, Preston Street, Court Street and the streets around the creek, sits inside the Faversham Conservation Area. Swale Borough Council has also designated Preston next Faversham and Ospringe as their own conservation areas. Any hedge or tree with a stem over 75mm diameter at 1.5m needs six weeks' written notice under section 211 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 before you touch it. We file that notice as part of every quote in these streets.

• Abbey Street and the creek, medieval and Georgian townhouses with walled rear gardens, mostly box, yew and holly. Conservation-area covered.
• Preston Street and the town centre, mixed Georgian and Victorian frontages, small formal hedges, high footfall.
• Davington and the Mall, Victorian villas and inter-war semis just west of the centre, larger gardens, privet and laurel common.
• Ospringe, its own conservation area on the old London road out of town, mature yew and beech field boundaries.
• Newer estates towards the A2, standard suburban privet, leylandii and laurel, no conservation-area restrictions.

The orchard villages

South and east of the town, the ground rises gently towards the North Downs and into Kent's traditional orchard country, Brogdale, home to the National Fruit Collection, sits about two miles south. Hedges out here are as likely to be old farm boundaries as garden screens, and many back directly onto agricultural land, which brings the Hedgerows Regulations 1997 into play alongside the usual bird-nesting law.

• Brogdale, orchard country, mixed native hawthorn and blackthorn field hedges.
• Selling, village conservation area, mature hedgerows and orchard boundaries.
• Boughton under Blean, on the old Canterbury road, large rural gardens.
• Dunkirk and Sheldwich, smaller villages with a mix of native hedgerow and formal garden hedges.

Towards the Swale

North of the town, the ground drops to the marshes and Faversham Creek before reaching the Swale itself. Gardens here tend to be more sheltered than the exposed coast further east, but salt-laden wind off the estuary still shapes what thrives.

• Oare, creekside village, mixed hedging on deep alluvial soil.
• Luddenham, scattered rural properties, mostly native field hedges.

Not sure if we cover your postcode?

Our standard round covers ME13 and the immediately surrounding villages. If you're just outside that, send us a postcode, we will tell you honestly whether it makes sense for us to travel out. CT5 (Whitstable) and CT1-CT4 (Canterbury) are covered by whitstablehedges.co.uk and canterburyhedges.co.uk.