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Peter Britton on 01747 855335 email:
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Local Authority Classifieds STREET SCENE ROLLERS SEED SUPPLIERS
Possibly the largest stockist of amenity grass and wild flowers seed in northern England
Hurrells Specialist Seeds, Beverley Road Cranswick Driffield East Yorkshire YO25 9PF Tel: 01377 271400 Fax: 01377 271500 Email:
nick@hmseeds.com
www.hmseeds.com
SOIL SCREENERS SOIL SCREENERS
Produce high quality topsoil from your own recycled materials
HIRE AND SALES
POWEROLL ROLLERS
NEW AND USED
Tel: 01822 832608
www.poweroll.com
RUBBER CRUMB
The use of RUBBER CRUMB on grass as top dressing has been granted a PATENT in the UK and Ireland under Number EP0788301B1
TEBBUTT ASSO.
ARE THE LICENSEES with CROWN III rubber crumb Turf
Reinforcement, the licensed product. Contact Tebbutt Asso.
on 01253 342003 or Fax 01253 346644 e-mail:
tebbuttasso@btconnect.com www.tebbuttassociates.co.uk
SEED SUPPLIERS INTERNATIONAL LTD
Contact Dave on 01380 828337 Mobile: 07971 843802 email:
sales@synergyproducts.ltd.uk www.synergyproducts.ltd.uk
SPARE PARTS Tines
Slitters Scarifiers
for turf maintenance machinery
Tel: (0044) 0114 251 3344 Email:
sales@tines.co.uk
Fax: (0044) 0114 251 3000
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THE UK’s PREMIER SUPPLIER FOR ALL YOUR GOLF AND TURF MACHINERY SPARES
Street Scene has a team of around forty full time staff, a far cry from the department that once employed around 205 before CCT was introduced
DAVE SALTMAN reports
maintenance areas. The North East is looked after in-house by Street Scene; the South East and West contracts, in partnership with the city council, are managed by private contractor, Enterprise. The three contracts cater for all of the street cleaning, bedding, general verge grass areas, cemeteries and the parks, including their sports surfaces. School maintenance in the area is maintained as a separate contract run by another council division, as are the arboricultural needs of the city. Street Scene North East has a
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team of around forty full time staff, a far cry from the department that once employed around 205 before compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) was introduced in the late eighties. Twice a year the department
hese days Wolverhampton parks and gardens (and streets) are split into three
The spring and summer months are particularly busy and, when the grass is growing quickly, some of the street cleaning teams move over to grass cutting operations. Street Scene carries out its
own ‘in-house’ training and has invested in two of the staff to go on a ‘Train the Trainer’ course. These guys give instruction to the others on all aspects of machinery use and maintenance. All of the street cleaning
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has to plant and maintain summer and winter bedding. For two to three weeks during each period, five teams of 3-4 people replant all of the planters, hanging baskets and roundabouts that adorn the city centre and surrounding area. In total nearly half a million bedding plants are used in the schemes. Once the bedding is in place, particularly throughout the summer, a team of two spends every day watering and feeding the plants to ensure a great floral display. For all the hedges and shrubs in the area, another team will spend two periods each year, weeding, pruning and litter picking.
teams are trained in mowing and other grounds work operations, so that they can be pulled off street cleaning functions in order to bolster the under pressure grass maintenance crews during peak periods of growth. When new machinery is purchased all the staff receive certificated induction training from the manufacturer. As a rough estimate the
mowing teams have around 170 hectares to keep maintained to a reasonable height. There are also three teams who look after the general grass areas; these include roundabouts, road side verges, housing sites and other open spaces. One team looks after the city centre grass areas and fine lawns around areas such as the civic centre.
There is one tractor driver using a set of 5/7 Ransomes gangs, his role is to cut the parks and sports grounds in the area. Usually, these areas are cut at least once a fortnight, but that is subject to weather conditions and growth.
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