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PLS Group UK are pleased to be sponsoring the Spenni Boys’ Charity Motor Cycle Endurance Ride in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support and The Stroke Association. Our very own managing director, Jason, will be one of the participants in the ride.  Andrew, Charles, Jason and Jonny are from Spennithorne in Wensleydale who were in a group of six friends in primary school and are still close friends today. Sadly, one of the group, Phil, was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in February 2018 and passed away 9 weeks later aged 46 leaving a young widow and a 5 year old son. Macmillan...

Owners of both large (and small!) tree populations have a duty of care to assess the health and safety of any trees on their property and what effect that may have on users of their own land but also third party property including public roads. PLS Group UK began life as Powerline Surveying LTD and as such we have a great depth of experience in vegetation surveys in the vicinity of overhead lines and equipment. In addition to this we are also experienced in providing visual tree health surveys using our professional tree inspector and level 4 arb diploma...

Being vegetation management experts, PLS group UK carry out tree work for a variety of different clients. This can be felling and removing trees on big sites using large plant and machinery to working from a rope and harness in difficult access situations. Being able to respond to a clients request at short notice is also a speciality of ours. During the winter storms during the early part of 2022, PLS were contacted by one of their long term clients to be on call to clear fallen trees on a stretch of Network rail line running across Kent in the south east. Within a days’...

Tree removal project for a long term client, this time in Buckinghamshire in the south of England. After thorough ecological checks prior to starting the project involved removal of a large area of trees along with the roots to prepare the site for construction work. The limited timescale of five days required the use of large plant to ensure the deadline would be achieved. Using our tree felling expertise and our experienced machine operators utilised both 8 and 13 tonne grapple equipped excavators along with a large, self-propelled chipper to chip all but the largest of logs....

PLS Group UK are experts in all types of fencing from stock net, post and rail and palisade. This project was one of our simpler ones. This fencing project was carried out in tandem with our ongoing vegetation works for a civil engineering client in Lincolnshire. The client required a boundry fence to demarcate their area of operations and allow the adjacent farmland to still be used. This was to be achieved through the installation of wooden posts and twin blue line. For this we used our purpose built post knocker. This self contained unit not only drives the posts into the...