Councils invest in new environmental team
27 Apr 2012
Great Dawley Parish Council and Telford & Wrekin Council are to spend £38,000 a year on a new environmental team.
Government quango the Homes & Communities Agency has given £8.5m to green-space charity the Land Trust for the long-term management and upkeep of four former coalfields in Yorkshire.
Great Dawley Parish Council and Telford & Wrekin Council are to spend £38,000 a year on a new environmental team.
Eastbourne Borough Council wants grass cutting and upkeep on highways, amenity areas and housing grounds, pruning and maintenance of shrubs, hedges and looking after beds, borders, hard surface areas and ditches for five years worth around £3.5m.
School project totalling £2m features among four major job awards for landscape contractor.
Contractors are to be helped through the legal and technical minefield of the pre-qualification questionnaire for tendering processes.
Contractors report that lack of clear advice from water companies leaves them in limbo as hosepipe bans begin to bite.
The head of professional services at the Institute of Groundsmanship is urging local authority groundsmen and green space managers affected by hosepipe restrictions to appeal to their local water authorities for leniency.
Pinnacle PSG has scored an 83 per cent satisfaction among residents who pay for its landscape services around homes run by LHA-ASRA Group in Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Nuneaton & Bedworth and Rugby.
The seven water companies that have implemented hosepipe bans across the South and South East are to explore sources of non-potable water for use by landscapers following a 'summit' with the Horticultural Trades Association, British Association of Landscape Industries and the Turfgrass Growers Association...
BALI, HTA, APL and the Turf Grass Growers Association met all seven water companies on 10 April to discuss hosepipe bans and their threat to the landscape and turf industries.



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