South Cambridgeshire District Council- Cambourne Business Park Grounds Maintenance Contract

The ground maintenance involves general labour activities of: The grounds maintenance works include a variety of activities such as these general duties: - Litter pick - Watering grass and trees as required - Clearing debris from all bodies of water, maintaining aquatics and keeping reeds in the lakes under control by hand weeding from a boat. - Sweeping paths and car parks - Daily checks to lake pumps and equipment - notify of any failure for action by others - Routine grass cutting and edging including cutting neat circles around all trees in grass - Selective weed control to all areas of grass - Topping up bark mulch to all areas - Checking newt fences - Weeding shrubs beds by hand to avoid damaging perennials, lifting out compaction caused by pedestrians, application of fertilizers application of pesticides - Minor pruning to keep sight lines and kerb lines clear - Pruning all hedges - Maintain woodland planting, weeding tubes by hand and the balance by applications of roundup. Checking and removing loose tube, maintaining visibility splays - Depot works - there are no facilities on site for yard storage and waste disposal, so all materials, plant and equipment are removed off site each night. - Depot works - disposal of waste. All waste, grass cuttings and pruning’s are re-cycled at our Wildmere Farm depot. - Strimming banks surrounding future plots - Pruning trees at low level to remove all suckers and epicormic growth At times there will be additional labour needed to undertake as agreed and appropriate: - Spraying car parks and hard surfaces with herbicide (3 to 6 times per annum); - Ditto with algicide including breedon gravel areas - Removal of dead material from car park joints with a pedestrian operated hard bristle sweeping machine and by hand hoeing, collect and remove arising - Scarifying and bringing breedon gravel to a tilth, raking out and re-compacting - Scarifying lawns including the marketing suite grass and fertilizer application - Gritting and snow clearing (in lieu of beating up) - Cutting areas of future plots with a 3m cut flail mower (4 times per annum) - Formative pruning and removing spent herbaceous growth - Pruning avenue trees at high level with Mobile Elevating Work Platform (MEWP).