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Enhancing the Landscape gavinjones.co.uk

Enhancing the Landscape

gavinjones.co.uk

LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION

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MOD & MILITARYPARKS & PALACES

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ABOUT US

Gavin Jones Ltd is a national landscape construction and maintenance company. From February 2018, Gavin Jones became part of the Nurture Landscapes Group. Specialising in landscape construction and grounds maintenance across the breadth of the UK, Gavin Jones strives for excellence in all aspects of work, with a flexible attitude to client requirements.

Our focus is on the delivery of an optimum quality service that aims not only to meet, but to exceed our client’s expectations. Our fully trained staff offer a professional and diverse range of land management skills, using a combination of traditional best-practice horticultural techniques and innovative technology, whilst remaining sensitive to the environment in which we work.

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OTHER SERVICES

Tree Works

Plant Displays

Winter Gritting

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LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION

Gavin Jones Ltd has established an enviable reputation for premium quality service and a flexible attitude to meeting client requirements. Our dedicated and experienced staff offer a professional and diverse range of hard and soft landscaping skills, together with an all-encompassing project management capability; from small schemes, to multi-million pound contracts.

Whether your preference is for a negotiated, partnered design & build, or a more traditional style contract, Gavin Jones, will ensure all aspects of the specification are delivered in a timely and cost effective manner, with the aim of not only meeting but exceeding stakeholder expectations.





LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTIONSoft & Hard Landscaping

Gavin Jones’s vast experience in managing large planting schemes, gives us the ability to successfully implement the high profile specifications and programmes required to meet the needs of complex projects. We are one of only a few contractors in the UK who have the relevant experience 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!

Our skilled workforce has extensive knowledge and experience in delivering complex hard landscape schemes to a high standard. Our technical abilities include minor building and civils works, roof gardens, public realm and private gardens in both new build and restoration environments.



LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTIONDesign & Build, Restoration & Renovation

Gavin Jones offers a design & build service for a wide variety of construction schemes; from high end domestic projects to larger complex commercial new build projects. We have the expertise and experience to manage your project right through from the point of concept design, to construction and completion. Our project management team will ensure all aspects of the specification are delivered in a professional, timely and cost effective manner.

Since the 1970s we have gained a vast amount of experience and involvement in regeneration and restoration works, mainly from working with Local Authorities and Development Corporations. The scope of works often includes minor building and civils works, water features, stone restoration, play areas, lighting, street furniture and sensitive hard and soft landscape works. These are often high value, complex projects, requiring a collaborative project management team to work alongside the client and stakeholders.



GROUNDS MAINTENANCE

At Gavin Jones we are passionate about enhancing the landscape and protecting the environment in which we work and live. Since the Industrial Revolution, green spaces are considered to be an essential component of the urban environment, providing a refreshing relief from stone and concrete. How your surroundings are tended speaks volumes about how you care for your people, and studies demonstrate that exposure to a well maintained landscape has a noticeable effect on improving health and well-being for all.

At Gavin Jones we strive for excellence in all aspects of work to ensure complete client satisfaction.

Our Grounds Maintenance teams aim to maintain your investment by maximising the presentation of your interior and exterior landscape environment through efficient, proactive and cost effective management. With a flexible attitude to client requirements, regular communication and health and safety awareness, our fully trained specialist grounds maintenance teams offer a professional and diverse range of land management skills, using latest technology, equipment and ‘best practice’ grounds maintenance techniques

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GROUNDS MAINTENANCERoyal Parks & Palaces

Gavin Jones maintain Greenwich, Bushy and Richmond Parks on behalf of The Royal Parks. The service provision entails estate and park management services, ring fenced horticultural services, as well as a 7 day a week cleansing contract. Working on these high profile parks, we are proud to have attained a BALI Award at Greenwich Park, and Green Flag status at all three parks, with the addition of the Green Flag Heritage Award at Richmond Park.

These prestigious parks enjoy a reputation for horticultural excellence and nature conservation, attracting approximately four million visitors each year. Our staff are expected to be in smart uniform and are regularly asked questions relating to horticulture, directions, park features and other related matters, which they handle in a courteous, sympathetic and professional manner.



GROUNDS MAINTENANCEMOD & Military

On behalf of Aspire Defence Services Limited (ADSL), Gavin Jones undertakes extensive grounds maintenance services at Aldershot and the Salisbury plains Garrisons. The partnership stretches over the 5 main Southern Army Garrisons and work covers the maintenance of the communal Garrison areas, residential and Officers’ Mess areas, Soldiers’ living accommodation, natural sports turf surfaces maintained to FA and

RFU standards, 3G sports pitches, ECB County standard cricket wickets, athletics stadia, as well as the cemeteries, which are to be kept in accordance with War Graves Commission standards. In 2018, Gavin Jones was the proud winner of the IOG Industry Award for Public Sector Sport Ground Team 2018, for the sports turf delivery work we carry out across the Aspire contract.



GROUNDS MAINTENANCETree Works

Gavin Jones is an Arboricultural Association approved contractor for tree works and offer a wide range of tree surveying and surgery services, which meet current best practice and industry standards. As an Arboricultural Association approved contractor, we have gained a diverse wealth of knowledge and experience, having worked on construction sites to ecologically sensitive sites, covering both domestic and commercial clients.

We can provide free no obligation quotes and simple friendly advice from a fully qualified Arborist.

Below are some of the services we offer: • Crown lifting• Crown cleaning / reduction / thinning• Deadwooding• Dead, dying and dangerous tree work• Emergency call-outs• Formative pruning• Installation of bracing• Pollarding / re-pollarding• Storm damage repair• Stump grinding and removal• Tree felling• Tree dismantling / sectional felling• Tree surgery• Veteran tree works.

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WINTER GRITTING

Ice and snow pose real dangers to the safety of occupiers and visitors to any business. We can remove this risk by providing comprehensive winter gritting and snow clearance services across the UK, via our highly experienced winter gritting team at Nurture Landscapes – www.nurturelandscapes.co.uk. We have a significant fleet of vehicles comprising of 18 and 7.5 tonne gritting lorries, flat-bed trucks, adapted transit vans and tractors, and store over 2000 tonnes of loose salt at all our major regional depots across the UK.

Weather conditions are closely monitored on a daily basis using the Met Office’s detailed weather forecasting system. Our Weather Watch system enables swift action, but also avoids the expense of surplus gritting, as our focus is on road surface temperatures where the ice hazard forms.

The system receives daily weather forecasts from the Met Office for every postcode area across the UK, which it uses to predict road surface temperatures. This enables us to activate jobs automatically for sites where ice is likely, streamlining the whole operation.

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PLANT DISPLAYS

We can offer a full Plant Display service, ranging from interior and exterior planting to hanging baskets, floristry and Christmas trees for corporate, leisure, and retail clients through our sister company Nurture Landscapes – www.nurturelandscapes.co.uk. Whether designed for a single site or rolling out across a corporate scheme, we ensure every plant or display is appropriate for the location and we will keep it looking perfect via an ongoing maintenance programme.

A regular supply of fresh flowers can brighten and lift any environment, from reception areas and lobbies to hotel suites. Using a combination of home grown and ethically sourced plants, Nurture’s florists create an array of designs, from classic simplicity to opulence and elegance.

We supply and install artificial or live locally sourced Christmas trees, both interior and exterior for every location, from the lobby 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 work that will exceed expectations and set new benchmarks for excellence. This unswerving commitment has been recognized with numerous awards from a variety of sectors and disciplines, which reflect the strength in depth across the company.

The awards also recognize the partnerships we have built with our clients; founded on trust, understanding and shared goals. Over the years we have been awarded many high profile awards from bodies such as, BALI, Green Flag, Green Apple, London and South and South East in Bloom and The institute of Groundsmanship (IOG).

Our clients include...

RSME – Brompton Barracks

Brompton Barracks, based in Kent, forms part of the headquarters of the Royal School of Military Engineering (RSME) and is one of the highest quality Georgian barracks in the country. The grounds consist of carefully designed formal landscaping around historic buildings which are Grade II listed.

Gavin Jones have been contracted at Brompton Barracks since April 2015 and employ a full time grounds maintenance team including a full time sports groundsman to maintain the site. Work includes maintenance of the sports and amenity areas, including cemetery services and burials, as well as management of the large tree stock within a conservation area.

Chiswick House & Gardens TrustChiswick Gardens is a restored 18th century garden in West London, open to the public. The grounds cover 65 acres of sweeping landscapes designed by William Kent and is one of the earliest examples of the English Landscape Garden.

Gavin Jones have maintained the gardens since April 2014, employing a full time Head Gardener and operative alongside seasonal and part-time employees.

During our contract term, the site has been awarded several accolades including, Horticulture Week Custodian Award, which recognises the custodians of the UK’s vital garden and green spaces, celebrating the best of parks, gardens and tree management.

The Royal Parks

Gavin Jones maintain the prestigious and historic London Royal Parks; Richmond Park (955 ha), Bushey Park (450 ha) and Greenwich Park (73 ha).

These parks are maintained within the rigorous requirements of Grade I listed and SSSI management standards and are visited by millions of people annually, representing some of the best public open green spaces in the country.

This is exemplified by award of Green Flag status at all three parks, along with the Green Heritage Award at Richmond Park and the BALI Landscape Award for Outstanding Grounds Maintenance Service at Greenwich Park.

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SKY UK Campus, West London

Work to the new building of the Sky UK Campus, Brentford, was carried out in 5 phases over a period of 14 months.

Due to the nature of the contract the design development was going on just ahead of the installation works, adding demands on the supply chain and site team to meet the phasing programme.

Work included the supply and installation of extensive areas of imported soils with perennials, shrubs and semi-mature trees. The majority of the planting was installed during the summer months using containerised stock, providing areas of amenity and wildflower turf to create open areas and views.

Private Residence, LondonThis high end house built in the 1850’s has gone through major redevelopment including a basement construction under the rear garden area.

The major challenge faced was the limited access, requiring soils to be imported via a conveyor belt system through the house, and large specimen trees and several large stepping stones having to be lifted over the house by mobile crane.

Other elements of the build included, drainage, irrigation and lighting systems, which were all managed alongside the house build programme. The success of the scheme was recognised with a BALI award in 2018.

Pitzhanger Manor, EalingPitzhanger Manor dates from 1804, and was designed as a country retreat by Sir John Soane.

As part of a recent refurbishment, a new café was constructed within the walled garden as well as refurbishment of the existing Gallery.

Gavin Jones, having previously restored the Manor grounds, now known as Walpole Park, were employed to install new drainage and paving, metal edgings with gravel paths and an extensive planting scheme throughout the site of the new refurbishment using traditional species and mixes.

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South Office:Nursery Court London Road Windlesham Surrey GU20 6LQ T 0800 755 5265

North Office:Nunbrook Farm 7 Leeds Road Mirfield West Yorkshire WF14 0BY T 01924 481 200 E [email protected] gavinjones.co.uk

Established since 1919

By Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen

Landscape Maintenance Contractor Gavin Jones Ltd

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