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Grounds Maintenance Services specialise in all forms of ground maintenance operations. Established in 1989 the service now operates as a commercial division of Wigan Leisure & Culture Trust. We offer a wide range of services, which are delivered by fully trained staff who are aware of our customer’s expectations and their own obligations relating to health & safety. By working closely with our customers we are able to offer a cost-effective service tailored to suit their requirements. We believe in working closely with our customers to promote service flexibility and increased customer satisfaction.

Services available include:

Arboricultural Services
Grounds Maintenance
Grounds Maintenance – Schools, Colleges, Educational Establishments
Sports Turf Care & Renovation
Environmental Cleansing
Hard Surface Marking
Planting Schemes & Weed Control
Hard & Soft Landscape Construction

ARBORICULTURAL SERVICES

Grounds Maintenance Services specialises in all forms of arboricultural operations including domestic and commercial contracts. Our services are carried out by fully qualified staff supported by extensive health & safety procedures and full insurance cover.

Services include:

• Tree Felling
• Section Felling
• Crown Reducing
• Crown Lifting
• Pruning & Thinning
• Re-shaping
• Pollarding
• Stump Grinding & Removal
• Area Clearance

“Where possible all tree waste is recycled”

We provide a cost-effective service that is second to none.

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GROUNDS MAINTENANCE

With over 20 years experience of delivering first class maintenance services to local authority, commercial and private sector customers, our award winning maintenance teams specialise in all areas of grounds maintenance from highway verges to high profile ornamental parks, country parks and tourist attractions. Attractive landscaped areas present an excellent first impression of your business to both clients and employees. Our maintenance contracts can deliver high quality attractive landscaped areas at a cost that presents good value for money and a sound investment.

A typical maintenance contract can cover:

• Grass Cutting
• Shrub Bed Maintenance
• Hedge Trimming
• Litter/Debris Clearance and Disposal
• Weed Control
• Site Inspections
• Tree Maintenance
• Planting
• Hard Surface Sweeping
• Winter Road Gritting
• Clearance Visits

To deliver this service our staff are fully trained and supplied with the latest equipment and are aided by a comprehensive management support system.

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Grounds Maintenance - Schools, Colleges and other Educational Establishments

We currently maintain over 140 schools throughout Wigan Borough, supplying a full range of maintenance services to amenity and sports pitch areas, working to a pre-arranged service level agreements and specific customer requirements. We maintain winter and summer sports pitches including rugby, football, hockey and full athletic facilities, we also maintain all-weather pitches including Astro-Turf and Redgra. Other grounds maintenance services include full and partial pitch renovation ensuring that whatever the weather a good quality playing surface is maintained.

SPORTS TURF CARE & RENOVATION

Grounds Maintenance Services are highly experienced in a wide variety of sports facilities, including athletics, rugby, golf, tennis and bowling, covering construction, maintenance, and management services. Whatever your requirements, Grounds Maintenance Services are committed to providing a professional and affordable service.

• Renovation
• Top Dressing
• Over Seeding
• Mowing
• Fertilising
• Rolling & Harrowing
• Spraying
• Aeration - Spiking, Hollowtining, Verti-draining, Earthquaking
• Scarifying
• Marking
• Drainage
• Ball Stop Fencing
• Equipment Supply

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ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANSING

Our newly formed Environmental Cleansing Service can deliver an efficient and flexible cleaning service to all types of premises and locations.

Services now include:

• Mechanical Sweeping
• Litter Collection & Disposal
• Litter Bin Installation
• Fly Tipping Removal
• Gum Removal
• Graffiti Removal
• Fly Poster Removal

HARD SURFACE MARKING

We can apply a complete range of sports and playground markings to hard surfaces in most colours. The line marking paints used are durable and conform to the relevant non-slip standard. From hopscotch and play lines to professional games courts, we have the knowledge and expertise to ensure that each job is undertaken to the highest standards. We will be pleased to give you an immediate quotation for your specific requirements, including initial marking and the over-marking of existing lines.

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PLANTING SCHEMES & WEED CONTROL

Let us help you to choose right combination of plants and containers. We will be happy to visit you on site, show you sample containers or plants and provide you with a quotation.

Maintenance

Our fortnightly maintenance service includes all feeding, watering, cleaning of plants and containers, control of pests, plus free replacements of all natural plant failures or plants that simply outgrow their situation.

Weed Control

Grounds Maintenance Services employ state of the art techniques for accurate application of weed control products including:

• Total
• Selective
• Aquatic
• Grass growth regulation
• Moss control
• Disease control
• Pernicious & Invasive Weed Control

We can deliver cost-effective weed control solutions, whilst ensuring that the environment is protected from over treatment. Both public and private sectors rely on our expertise in dealing effectively and efficiently with a diverse range of weed control problems, confident in the knowledge that we only employ qualified and fully trained operatives using techniques that are fully compliant with legislative requirements. Whatever the problem, Grounds Maintenance Services can provide an effective solution to all your weed control problems.

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HARD & SOFT LANDSCAPING

Our multi-skilled teams are able to carry out large or small-scale contracts. Our expertise extends to civil works, paving, concrete work, earthworks, fencing, furniture installation, bed & border construction and large or small scale planting. Our cost-effective landscaping service can transform or improve existing landscapes. Aftercare is also a key feature of our service provision and on completion of any landscape scheme we can plan and deliver tailored maintenance programmes to enhance and to safeguard your investment.

HEALTH & SAFETY

Health & Safety is a very import aspect of our service delivery; all our staff are fully trained and regularly assessed relating to good health and safety practice including National Provisional Training Council (NPTC) qualifications relating to herbicide and chainsaw operations. In support of our health and safety training programmes our service operates an effective Health & Safety Management System, including safety policies and procedures, codes of practice, risk assessments and COSHH assessments. Our service also carries full insurance cover and can demonstrate compliance to all current legislation that impacts on our service provision.

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