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LANDSCAPE ROYAL CONSTRUCTION PARKS & PALACES MILITARY BASES

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ABOUT US

OTHER SERVICES

Gavin Jones Ltd is a national landscape Our focus is on the delivery of an optimum construction and maintenance company. quality service that aims not only to meet, From February 2018, Gavin Jones became but to exceed our client’s expectations. part of the Nurture Landscapes Group. Our fully trained staff offer a professional Tree Works Specialising in landscape construction and and diverse range of land management grounds maintenance across the breadth of skills, using a combination of traditional Plant Displays the UK, Gavin Jones strives for excellence in best-practice horticultural techniques and all aspects of work, with a flexible attitude innovative technology, whilst remaining to client requirements. sensitive to the environment in which Winter Gritting we work.

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LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION

Gavin Jones Ltd has established an Whether your preference is for a enviable reputation for premium quality negotiated, partnered design & build, or a service and a flexible attitude to meeting more traditional style contract, Gavin Jones, client requirements. will ensure all aspects of the specification are delivered in a timely and cost effective Our dedicated and experienced staff offer manner, with the aim of not only meeting a professional and diverse range of hard but exceeding stakeholder expectations. and soft landscaping skills, together with an all-encompassing project management capability; from small schemes, to multi-million pound contracts.

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LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION Soft & Hard Landscaping

Gavin Jones’s vast experience in managing Our skilled workforce has extensive large planting schemes, gives us the ability knowledge and experience in delivering to successfully implement the high profile complex hard landscape schemes to a specifications and programmes required to high standard. Our technical abilities meet the needs of complex projects. include minor building and civils works, roof gardens, public realm and private We are one of only a few contractors in gardens in both new build and the UK who have the relevant experience restoration environments. required to handle and plant large specimen trees onto client sites and into challenging spaces, whether it is at street level or on the 10th floor!

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LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION Design & Build, Restoration & Renovation

Gavin Jones offers a design & build service Since the 1970s we have gained a vast for a wide variety of construction schemes; amount of experience and involvement in from high end domestic projects to larger regeneration and restoration works, mainly complex commercial new build projects. from working with Local Authorities and Development Corporations. We have the expertise and experience to manage your project right through from The scope of works often includes minor the point of concept design, to construction building and civils works, water features, and completion. stone restoration, play areas, lighting, street furniture and sensitive hard and soft Our project management team will landscape works. ensure all aspects of the specification are delivered in a professional, timely and cost These are often high value, complex effective manner. projects, requiring a collaborative project management team to work alongside the client and stakeholders. www.gavinjones.co.uk 09 10 Enhancing the Landscape

GROUNDS MAINTENANCE

At Gavin Jones we are passionate about Our Grounds Maintenance teams aim to enhancing the landscape and protecting the maintain your investment by maximising the environment in which we work and live. presentation of your interior and exterior landscape environment through efficient, Since the Industrial Revolution, green spaces proactive and cost effective management. are considered to be an essential component of the urban environment, providing a With a flexible attitude to client refreshing relief from stone and concrete. requirements, regular communication and health and safety awareness, our fully How your surroundings are tended speaks trained specialist grounds maintenance volumes about how you care for your teams offer a professional and diverse range people, and studies demonstrate that of land management skills, using latest exposure to a well maintained landscape technology, equipment and ‘best practice’ has a noticeable effect on improving health grounds maintenance techniques. and well-being for all.

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GROUNDS MAINTENANCE Royal Parks & Palaces

Gavin Jones maintain Greenwich, Bushy and These prestigious parks enjoy a reputation Richmond Parks on behalf of The Royal for horticultural excellence and nature Parks. The service provision entails estate conservation, attracting approximately four and park management services, ring fenced million visitors each year. horticultural services, as well as a 7 day a week cleansing contract. Our staff are expected to be in smart uniform and are regularly asked questions Working on these high profile parks, we are relating to horticulture, directions, park proud to have attained a BALI Award at features and other related matters, which Greenwich Park, and Green Flag status at all they handle in a courteous, sympathetic and three parks, with the addition of the Green professional manner. Flag Heritage Award at Richmond Park.

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GROUNDS MAINTENANCE Military Bases

On behalf of Aspire Defence Services RFU standards, 3G sports pitches, ECB Limited (ADSL), Gavin Jones undertakes County standard cricket wickets, athletics extensive grounds maintenance services at stadia, as well as the cemeteries, which are Aldershot and the Salisbury plains Garrisons. to be kept in accordance with War Graves Commission standards. The partnership stretches over the 5 main Southern Army Garrisons. Work covers the In 2018, Gavin Jones was the proud winner maintenance of the communal Garrison of the IOG Industry Award for Public Sector areas, residential and Officers’ Mess areas, Sport Ground Team 2018, for the sports soldiers’ living accommodation, natural turf delivery work we carry out across the sports turf surfaces maintained to FA and Aspire contract.

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GROUNDS MAINTENANCE Tree Works

Gavin Jones is an Arboricultural Association Below are some of the services we offer: approved contractor for tree works and offer a wide range of tree surveying and • Crown lifting surgery services, which meet current best • Crown cleaning / reduction / thinning practice and industry standards. • Deadwooding • Dead, dying and dangerous tree work As an Arboricultural Association approved • Emergency call-outs contractor, we have gained a diverse wealth • Formative pruning of knowledge and experience, having • Installation of bracing worked on construction sites to ecologically • Pollarding / re-pollarding sensitive sites, covering both domestic and • Storm damage repair commercial clients. • Stump grinding and removal • Tree felling We can provide free no obligation quotes • Tree dismantling / sectional felling and simple friendly advice from a fully • Tree surgery qualified Arborist. • Veteran tree works. www.gavinjones.co.uk 17 gritting with care

WINTER GRITTING

Ice and snow pose real dangers to the Weather conditions are closely monitored safety of occupiers and visitors to any on a daily basis using the Met Office’s business. We can remove this risk by detailed weather forecasting system. Our providing comprehensive winter gritting Weather Watch system enables swift action, and snow clearance services across the but also avoids the expense of surplus UK, via our highly experienced winter gritting, as our focus is on road surface gritting team at Nurture Landscapes – temperatures where the ice hazard forms. www.nurturelandscapes.co.uk. The system receives daily weather forecasts We have a significant fleet of vehicles from the Met Office for every postcode comprising of 18 and 7.5 tonne gritting area across the UK, which it uses to predict lorries, flat-bed trucks, adapted transit vans road surface temperatures. This enables and tractors, and store over 2000 tonnes of us to activate jobs automatically for sites loose salt at all our major regional depots where ice is likely, streamlining the across the UK. whole operation.

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gardeners who care

PLANT DISPLAYS

We can offer a full Plant Display service, A regular supply of fresh flowers can ranging from interior and exterior planting brighten and lift any environment, from to hanging baskets, floristry and Christmas reception areas and lobbies to hotel suites. trees for corporate, leisure, and retail Using a combination of home grown and clients through our sister company Nurture ethically sourced plants, Nurture’s florists Landscapes – www.nurturelandscapes.co.uk. create an array of designs, from classic simplicity to opulence and elegance. Whether designed for a single site or rolling out across a corporate scheme, we ensure We supply and install artificial or live locally every plant or display is appropriate for the sourced Christmas trees, both interior and location, and we will keep it looking perfect exterior for every location, from the lobby via an ongoing maintenance programme. of 5 Star Hotels to corporate reception areas. Our service includes full installation, decorating, dismantling and recycling of trees for re-use as compost.

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AWARDS & ACCREDITATIONS

Gavin Jones strives to deliver a quality of The awards also recognize the partnerships work that will exceed expectations and we have built with our clients; founded on set new benchmarks for excellence. trust, understanding and shared goals. This unswerving commitment has been recognized with numerous awards from Over the years we have been awarded a variety of sectors and disciplines, many high profile awards from bodies such which reflect the strength in depth across as, BALI, Green Flag, Green Apple, London the company. in Bloom, South and South East in Bloom and The Institute of Groundsmanship (IOG).

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RSME – Brompton Barracks The Royal Parks Chiswick House & Gardens Trust Brompton Barracks, based in Kent, forms part of Gavin Jones maintain the prestigious and historic Chiswick Gardens is a restored 18th century garden the headquarters of the Royal School of Military London Royal Parks; Richmond Park (955 ha), in West London, open to the public. The grounds Engineering (RSME) and is one of the highest Bushey Park (450 ha) and Greenwich Park (73 ha). cover 65 acres of sweeping landscapes designed by quality Georgian barracks in the country. William Kent and is one of the earliest examples of These parks are maintained within the rigorous The grounds consist of carefully designed formal the English Landscape Garden. requirements of Grade I listed and SSSI landscaping around historic buildings which are management standards and are visited by millions Gavin Jones have maintained the gardens Grade II listed. of people annually, representing some of the best since April 2014, employing a full time Head Gavin Jones have been contracted at Brompton public open green spaces in the country. Gardener and operative alongside seasonal and Barracks since April 2015 and employ a full time part-time employees. This is exemplified by award of Green Flag status grounds maintenance team including a full time at all three parks, along with the Green Heritage During our contract term, the site has been sports groundsman to maintain the site. Work Award at Richmond Park and the BALI Landscape awarded several accolades including, Horticulture includes maintenance of the sports and amenity Award for Outstanding Grounds Maintenance Week Custodian Award, which recognises the areas, including cemetery services and burials, as Service at Greenwich Park. custodians of the UK’s vital garden and green well as management of the large tree stock within spaces, celebrating the best of parks, gardens and a conservation area. tree management.

22 SKY UK Campus, West London Private Residence, London Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing Work to the new building of the Sky UK Campus, This high end house built in the 1850’s has gone Pitzhanger Manor dates from 1804, and was Brentford, was carried out in 5 phases over a through major redevelopment including a designed as a country retreat by Sir John Soane. period of 14 months. basement construction under the rear garden area. As part of a recent refurbishment, a new café was Due to the nature of the contract the design The major challenge faced was the limited access, constructed within the walled garden as well as development was going on just ahead of the requiring soils to be imported via a conveyor belt refurbishment of the existing Gallery. installation works, adding demands on the system through the house, and large specimen trees Gavin Jones, having previously restored the Manor supply chain and site team to meet the and several large stepping stones having to be grounds, now known as Walpole Park, were phasing programme. lifted over the house by mobile crane. employed to install new drainage and paving, Work included the supply and installation of Other elements of the build included, drainage, metal edgings with gravel paths and an extensive extensive areas of imported soils with perennials, irrigation and lighting systems, which were all planting scheme throughout the site of the new shrubs and semi-mature trees. The majority of the managed alongside the house build programme. refurbishment using traditional species and mixes. planting was installed during the summer months The success of the scheme was recognised with a using containerised stock, providing areas of BALI award in 2018. amenity and wildflower turf to create open areas and views.

23 By Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen Landscape Maintenance Contractor Gavin Jones Ltd Surrey

South Office: North Office: Nursery Court Nunbrook Farm London Road 7 Leeds Road Windlesham Mirfield Surrey West Yorkshire GU20 6LQ WF14 0BY Established since 1919

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