MAINTENANCE PROJECTS
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Cotswold Estate Services 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:
South Marston Park Estate
Client: MEPC
Site infrastructure for the entire estate and selective business plot maintenance.
A dedicated team is allocated to this contract.
1984 to date.
Chargrove House
Client: Gloucester Training and Enterprise Council
The Chargrove House Conference Centre combines a formal frontage with seating and a water feature, with its rural setting, providing woodland walks and an ecological lake.
Cotswold Estate Services completed the implementation contract in 1988 and have undertaken ongoing maintenance to date.
Minton Place, Swindon, Wiltshire
Client: Nottinghamshire County Council
The design and build contract for new entrance gardens was completed in 2000 and we have undertaken the ongoing maintenance contract to date.
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, secured until 2009 (to be reviewed in 2009).
Aldi Distribution Warehouse
Client: Aldi GmbH& CoKG
We completed the planting contract in 1998 and have undertaken the ongoing maintenance to date.
Bristol Churches, Cirencester
Client: North British Housing Association
The maintenance contract for a sheltered housing development which we secured in 1987 and have undertaken to date.
Co-operative Store, Carterton
Client: Gloucester, Swindon and Oxford Co-operative
The original implementation contract for this modern new store, involved the planting of semi- mature trees, secured by underground guys, together with amenity shrub planting in the car park and along the store frontage.
The implementation contract was completed in 1999 and we have undertaken the ongoing maintenance to date.