Horticultural Features
Here are some facts and figures about the horticultural work we do around Salford.
Bedding
Colourful floral displays are planted throughout Salford including high profile areas eg. carpet bedding outside Salford Art Gallery, The Crescent, Salford and the Civic Centre, Chorley Road, Swinton.
Salford City Council also supports local initiatives eg. Langworthy in Bloom.
A comprehensive shrub and rose bed maintenance service is offered throughout the city of Salford.
Hedging
We look after 60,000 linear metres of grass hedging every year in city of Salford
This figure includes the maintenance of privet, beech and other traditional hedges, in addition to more ornate varieties such as box hedging.
Grass
We have to cut 90 million square metres of grass, cut in seven months, equating to 16,000 football pitches
A comprehensive shrub and rose bed maintenance service is offered throughout the city of Salford.
Cutting schedule
We aim to provide the following schedule during the growing season:
Routine amenity cutting: approximately 15 cuts per annum
High profile: approximately 30 cuts per annum
Bowling Greens: approximately 50 cuts per annum
Landscaping
We provide a comprehensive service to a host of major clients including Schools for Schemes, New Prospect Housing, housing estates and private estates. During the course of an average year we expect to deal with over 1,900 sites and 25,000 individual plots of land.
Trees
Salford City Council provides a comprehensive arboricultural service to a wide-ranging number of clients including schools and other council departments.
This service is provided by our in-house team in addition to private contractors and includes:
Stump removal/chipping/cutting; stump treatment; dead wooding – major; dead wooding – complete, crown thinning/reductions; tree felling; crown lifting; epicormic growth removal.
Who to contact
To request a service, please ring our Call Centre on 0161 909 6500 or contact: paul.ajones@salford.gov.uk.
This page was last updated on 26 June 2008
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