Woodland Dwelling
Goetre Villa Ltd (Welsh for woodland dwelling) was founded in 2016 providing project management services and technical expertise in both the water industry and in urban forestry and arboriculture.
As one of the UK’s leading experts in urban forestry we provide a one stop shop for tree maintenance from the strategy to maintenance and everything in between. We can help develop a strategy by working with tree officers and partners, we design site specific tree planting solutions; work towards enabling the right solution by working with partners, councils, funders, and elected officials. Goetre Villa Ltd (known as Woodland Dwelling) can provide the necessary equipment to plant standard trees or whips with professionals, school classes, community or youth groups. Once planted we are able to offer maintenace solutions and enable the local groups to maintain their new trees.
We work across the country with councils, housing associations and communities to help green and manage urban tree scapes better. We work with communities at a strategic level writing strategies, running canopy projects to look at where it’s best to plant trees in your community and design for the right tree right place. Woodland Dwelling can help plant Standard trees, hedgerows, woodland belts; and through the use of TreePlotter help managers better manage their trees. By working with community groups and local people we can help enable them to look after their trees in the future.
Meet our Team
Russell, Claire and Sarah are all specialists in their fields and have a huge passion for greening our towns and cities. Please feel free to contact Woodland Dwelling with any questions.
Russell
Claire
Sarah
Russell
Russell is a Chartered Arboriculturist with over 20 years experience, he specialises in working with community groups and cities on urban forestry management planning and public engagement to enable successful local tree planting schemes. An internationally known speaker for his work in local government having presented to audiences around the world.
Russell is best known for his work at Bristol City Council where he successfully ran a high profile community lead planting program Tree Bristol alongside improving the day to day management of the city's trees. This work was recognised by the sector in 2010 when Bristol was awarded the Barchams Award for “Outstanding Urban Forestry Management.”
Russell is passionate about siting the right tree in the right place but also about ensuring the health of the tree until maturity.
Claire
Claire has over 20 years experience within the water industry. Claire has contributed to each Price Review since 2004, and most recently project managed the asset management contribution for PR24 for a water only company.
Claire has been a project manager since 2004 and has managed a variety of projects from private sewer research, organising seminars and workshops, to large multi-location teams designing surface water removal schemes as well as projects within Woodland Dwelling.
Project budgets have ranged from £2,000 to £2.6m, with small teams of 2 and 3 to large teams of 20 or more staff.
Sarah
Inspired by community activism for trees in her home city of Sheffield, Sarah joined the Woodland Trust in 2018 to lead the Tree Charter Project, a partnership-driven community mobilisation programme designed to engage people, communities and organisations in caring for woods and trees. Sarah’s passion for greening urban spaces, mobilising people, working in partnership and driving policy change, led her to pursue urban forestry, initially within the Woodland Trust's urban projects team. Here her remit involved working to bring together multiple stakeholders from within local communities and council departments to secure the protection, creation and establishment of urban woods and trees.
Sarah joined Woodland Dwelling’s team in July 2023 where she specialises in working with community groups, councils, towns and cities on urban forestry management planning and public engagement.
Sarah sits on the Sheffield Street Tree Partnership as a representative of the Sheffield Street Tree Wardens.
Now meet the junior team members:
Olwyn: is our additional muscle, lifting shifting and general all rounder.
Dion: Tree waterer extraordinaire
