In total, on the North East area contract, there are twenty-one football pitches and two bowling greens to look after, all of which are situated within parks in the area. As well as the
mowing, the tractor is SPORTS EQUIPMENT
within the city. Nearly a quarter of all the maintenance staff are qualified with PA1/PA6 certificates, which means that spot treatment of
SPORTS TURF CONTRACTORS
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the pitch of performance
Football, Hockey Multi-Sports, Cricket, Tennis & Bowls
Design and construction of synthetic and natural sports surfaces and facilities
used to aerate all the football pitches using a Greensward Double Quick Outfield slitter/spiker. This operation is carried out monthly on all the pitches. There have been noticeable improvements to the drainage and performance of all the pitches since this was reintroduced in recent years.
benefit of any divoting, or even harrowing, so local levels can be quite poor.
The pitches don’t get the
All the pitches are fertilised annually, usually in the spring. Due to financial constraints there is little renovation done at the end of the season either. Usually, this just amounts to the goalmouths being retreated and topped up with 70:30 rootzone, before being seeded with ryegrass. Last year the council took all the arisings from Wolverhampton Wanderers FC’s end of season renovations. Around 500 cubic metres of material has been stockpiled in one of the park’s car parks, and will be a great dressing to be used on the pitches and flower borders in 2009. It will enable the department to do more for their existing playing surfaces in future years, as well as seeing this spoil recycled for the benefit of the city.
team spends Thursday and Friday each week marking out all the pitches. The bowling greens are maintained separately and have a more intense maintenance schedule. The greens are mown three times per week during the summer months and are regularly aerated and fertilised. Although they are subject to quite a lot of vandalism, the surfaces are in reasonably good condition and play host to three or four afternoons of bowls for the local residents. The department doesn’t cater for any cricket within the North East contracts; however this is soon to change with a number of locations currently being developed as cricket wickets
During the season a two-man
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SPORTS TURF COVERS AGRIPOWER
weeds can be carried out by many of the personnel including street cleaning operatives. Due to the time and scale involved, Street Scene outsource all the main spraying of highways and pathways as well as the selective spraying on the grass areas. For the football, the goals go back up during the second week in August; before they are erected the steel posts are all rubbed down and repainted. On the whole, vandalism is
TOP DRESSING OVER SEEDING DE-COMPACTION VERTIDRAINING GROUND BREAKING LANDSCAPING
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relatively low, there’s litter to pick up and occasional graffiti to remove from pavilion walls. On the pitches the teams keep an eye out for broken glass and, once in a while, a stolen/burnt out car appears overnight and needs to be removed. The street cleaning teams
CONSTRUCTION•DRAINAGE RENOVATION•SPRAYING
Tel: 01924 493359 Mob: 07778 288579 Email:
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work rotas covering seven days a week. There are five teams of three, with side loading vehicles for emptying the bins and they carry out manual sweeping in the city; there are four more operatives on precinct sweepers and a further two driving the larger road channel sweepers. A team of four have hand-carts to sweep the main shopping areas in and around the city and town centres.
Within the cleaning team there is also an out of hours call out system for major incidents around the city, 365 days a year. The team are responsible for the clean up of vehicle fuel spillages, animal deaths and RTCs (Road Traffic Collisions). This team liaises with the police to get main roads cleaned and re-opened as soon as possible after incidents.
they are easy targets for criticism but, in my experience, they do an excellent job of keeping our parks, gardens and streets clean, safe and usable.
As local authority employees
Avonmore Associates sportsfield construction
25 year of experience in bowling greens, fine turf management, pitch design, sportsfield construction and irrigation
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GOLF COURSE & SPORTSGROUND CONSTRUCTION
RENOVATION & MAINTENANCE IRRIGATION SYSTEMS LAND DRAINAGE SCHEMES WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Tel. 01722 716361
www.mjabbott.co.uk
Vertidraining, Hollow Coring, Overseeding, Draining, Gravel Banding, Field Top Maker, Deep Scarifying
Mobile: 07860 259692
Tel: 01284 735105 Email:
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