Tree assessments that can be relied on.

Arbor Survey started in 2010 as a sole trader and became a company, Arbor Survey Pty Ltd, in 2016. Two senior consulting arborists run the work: Mark Reynolds, Director and Principal Consulting Arborist, and Claudine Reynolds, Director and Senior Arborist. You deal with the person who inspects your trees, writes the report, and stands behind it through Council assessment and, where needed, at VCAT.

We stay with a project from the first question to the final certificate, and we work Victoria-wide.

We are a thorough arboricultural consultancy, and the most informed about how these decisions are actually made. We are not the cheapest, and we are not built around rushed, low-cost reporting. We are a firm whose assessments are prepared to answer the key questions early, can be relied on when another expert tests it, and find a way through when a lesser report would simply say no… or it gets too hard to problem solve.

Our reports follow a consistent structure, because a Council officer or a Tribunal should never have to hunt for the answer. The structure is templated; the thinking never is. Every site is read on its own facts, and where the obvious answer does not fit, we work out the one that does: the alternative to removal, the engineering detail that keeps a tree, the protection method that still lets the build go ahead. That thinking is what sets the report apart, not a form with the address changed.

When a report has to stand up, in planning, at VCAT or on site, this is the firm whose work sets the benchmark. Our principal wrote report-writing guidance now used by arborists across Victoria, and spent years reviewing other consultants' reports from inside Council. That is the standard we hold our own work to.