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.
Woking agrees 10-year deal including grounds maintenance covering borough's housing estates.
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.
Inserting PlantWell in pots and hanging baskets can cut water use by 90 per cent, the inventor has claimed.
Health and safety expert calls for action to reduce serious injury and fatality rates among grounds maintenance teams.
Wandsworth Borough Council wants repair and maintenance services of playground equipment fencing and safer surfacing for five years and worth around 735,000. Email celliott@wandsworth.gov.uk by 27 April. See full tender information
Cardiff Metropolitan University wants grounds maintenance services for horticultural maintenance and environmental hygiene including grassed areas, planted beds, shrubberies, trees and hedges, sports pitches along with woodland management for three years.
South Gloucestershire Council wants horticultural, arboricultural, forestry and other agri services for four years worth around £1m.



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