MAINTENANCE PROJECTS
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Cotswold Estates & Gardens currently has five teams dedicated to maintenance with an annual turnover of approximately £250,000. By allocating contracts to personnel on a long term basis, we aim to develop a sense of pride to ensure work is undertaken to the high standards which we, and our clients, expect.
Sites are visited on a minimum fortnightly basis throughout the growing season and monthly throughout the winter. Our teams are trained in skills such as pruning, as we aim to avoid the utilitarian approach seen so often, and rather seek to see the natural plant forms flourish.
The success of this regime is demonstrated by the repeat work we secure which is illustrated by the following selection of our contracts:
Grounds Maintenance At The Richmond Care Village, Letcombe Regis, Wantage
Grounds maintenance is carried out to this retirement community in Oxfordshire. This includes grass cutting of fine lawns, the management and cutting of wild flower meadows and the maintenance to herbaceous and shrub beds. Native hedges and woodland areas are also maintained as are areas of Brownian understory. The care of ornamental ponds and the management of waterside biodiversity areas are included as well.
Cirencester Bypass A419/A417
Client: Road Management Services Ltd
Further to the original implementation contract for the infrastructure planting along this privately financed road, we have been appointed for a number of additional management and maintenance contracts:
Landscape Management of existing woodland and grassland.
1999, value £100,000
Ongoing maintenance of the planting plots, including weed control, grass cutting, tree and shrub thinning, hedge cutting, replanting and rabbit fence removal.
From implementation in 1997, secured until 2009 (to be reviewed in 2009).
Grass cutting of the verges and management of wildflower areas along the entire 33 mile stretch of road from the M4 to the M5 junctions. This involves the use of our specialist Reform banks tractor, capable of cutting grass on the steep embankments.
2000 to date.
Cirencester
Client: Places for People
The maintenance contract for a sheltered housing development which we secured in 1987 and have undertaken to date.
South Marston Park Estate
Client: MEPC
Site infrastructure for the entire estate and selective business plot maintenance.
A dedicated team was allocated to this contract.
1984 to 2009, contract transferred due to changes of purchasing policy by managing agent’s to use national contractors.
