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No More Muddy Mess! Urbis LED Luminaire the Perfect Choice
Boddingtons Limited is a British A new LED lighting scheme
manufacturer offering a range of has provided a successful
grass and ground reinforcement step towards meeting the city
meshes and porous paving grids, council’s carbon reduction
for both grass protection and targets. Dave Franks, Public
gravel retention. Boddingtons Lighting Manager for the
newly enhanced GrassProtecta
®
, Council, explained, “the
is a heavy duty, thick, original lighting throughout
polyethylene mesh supplied on a Westbourne Green needed
roll. It can be rolled-out directly replacing. We asked Urbis to
on to existing grassed surfaces fit an LED solution into their
prone to wear or rutting, allowing decorative Haydon lantern,
the grass to grow through the which they duly provided.”
mesh, making it invisible in The main pedestrian routes
appearance, thus creating a through Westbourne Green are lit with thirty of Urbis’ Haydon units.
naturally pleasing (yet reinforced) The servicing interval of the units should be around 13 years and they will
grassed surface suitable for both also reduce the Council’s energy bills.
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Urgent Education Needed ADPave Goes to the Dogs
There is an urgent need to educate ADPave 40, the
householders on regulations governing cellular paving system
new and replacement domestic from Cheshire-based
driveways, suggests new research ADP, has 30 new fans,
commissioned by Brett Landscaping. and they all have four
Speaking about the survey results, legs. The system has
Bob Deller of Brett Landscaping said; just been used to
“Clearly more needs to be done to create a 1,400 square
educate homeowners about their metre car park and
responsibilities and their options if they access route at the
are planning work at the front of their Crossing Cottage
properties. A permeable solution is Greyhound Sanctuary
easy and simple to install. Both near Newark in
builder’s merchants and contractors Nottinghamshire and the residents of the kennels, 30 ex-racers looking for
are generally well briefed, so they are new homes, thoroughly approve of the new surface. “The result is fantastic.
in a unique position to provide the We now have an excellent car park and access route that gives us more than
necessary advice to homeowners.” enough room.” said John Morton, who runs the kennels.
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Tel: 0845 608 0570 Tel: 01270 824223
www.brett.co.uk/landscaping www.adpsurfacesolutions.co.uk
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