Garden Maintenance Audit - Master

• Location<br>

  Eaton Square

  Belgrave Square

  Chester Square

  Wilton Crescent

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• Prepared by

  Andrew Maskell

  Simon Lewis

  Peter Brooks

• Charge Gardener

  Select Nick Butler Stuart Camm Tony Carthy Dean Evans Maria Precedo Hamilton Periotto

  • Nick Butler
  • Stuart Camm
  • Tony Carthy
  • Dean Evans
  • Maria Precedo
  • Hamilton Periotto

Inspections, cleansing and infrastructure - Management Aim: To ensure the sites remain clean and open for safe access and use by key holders at all times.

• Inspections - Daily site check

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• Litter and cleaning - litter pick whole site

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• empty litter bins

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• Litter bins

• Empty dog bins and clean as required

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• Clear dog mess from path and lawns

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Furniture, signs, structures, gates and railings

• Minor repairs to furniture, signs, structures and notice boards to be carried out as necessary following daily inspections

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• Cleaning - Monitor and clean

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• Timber treatment - Annual treatment with wood preservative or painting

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Timber treatments notes

• Railings - Re painting of railings

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Path and hard surfaces

• Sweep, litter pick, clear debris to maintain access

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• Raking and removal of moss and weed build up

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• Pressure wash to clean and remove algae

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• Chemical weed control

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Path and hard surface notes

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Lawns - Management Aim -To maintain lawns as a close mown sward with a minimum of 95% grass cover, minimal weeds and moss growth providing areas for sitting, picnicking and relaxation.

• Grass cutting - Grass to be maintained as an even length between 15 & 40 mm

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• Grass edges - trimming - Edges to beds and paths to be clearly defined and neatly trimmed

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• Clear arisings -sweep or remove by hand from path and beds

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• Lawn - Winter Maintenance

• Grass Edges, aeration, scarification - Operations to enable summer maintenance standards, cover and requirements for weed and moss control to be achieved.

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• Spring/Autumn Feed

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• Grass areas - Repairs: Bare patches to be repaired and re seeded or turfed, water in until established

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Bedding and herbaceous - Management Aim: Bedding and herbaceous planting provides colour, variety and interest to the squares. Reduce high maintenance areas, in particular bedding, to agree high profile areas such as entrances where it will have the greatest impact. Use herbaceous planting to extend flowering season and enhance biodiversity.

• Bedding

• Summer / Winter - Agree design for new bedding and order plants

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• Remove autumn/winter bedding

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• Apply even layer of compost, farmyard manure or other improver.

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• Plant out new bedding to agreed design

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• Summer Bedding - Watering as required

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• Remove weeds, dead head and replace and failed plants.

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• Apply fertiliser during growing seasons

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• Winter bedding - Water for establishment

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• Remove weeds, dead head and replace any failed plants. Beds to be maintained in weed free condition with 100% plant cover

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• Herbaceous

• Planting season - new planting program as agreed, establishment maintenance inc watering

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• Spring maintenance - Mulch to 75mm

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• Summer maintenance - Weed and hoe beds to maintain 90% weed free condition

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• Autumn maintenance - Cut back and dead head, leave selected seed heads as agreed for winter effect and feeding birds

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• Divide and/or replace clumps, use healthy division to replant and extend groups - at least 3 of the same species to a group

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Shrubs - Management Aim - to maintain all species to ensure healthy growth habit, flowering and fruiting. To manage beds retain and open up views and vistas, retain low level screening of roads and to establish plant layers and improved overall structure to the beds where required.

• Shrub beds

• Weed and hoe beds to maintain 90% weed free conditions

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• Top up mulch

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• Light trimming back of plants overhanging footpaths and beginning to restrict access

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• Watering - as required

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• Replacements of losses

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• Pruning and shaping as required

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Climbers

• Pruning

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• Spring maintenance - Mulch to 75%

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• Summer maintenance - Weed to maintain 90% weed free condition

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• Winter maintenance - Replacement or additional planting as agreed

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• Ensure supports are in good order

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Hedges - Management Aim - Hedges will be kept neatly trimmed at a frequency suitable to the species composition of hedges

• Hedge trimming - Trimming frequencies to define by hedge species and heights

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• Summer - weed hedge line by hand - care to remove climbers through hedge

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• Winter - Regeneration of existing hedges

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• Replacement planting and establishment maintenance

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Trees - Management Aim - To maintain healthy tree cover in line with strategy. Ensure long term succession by new planting and increase light to garden by crown reduction, lifting and removal of selected trees to an agreed program.

• Tree safety - Ensure trees have been inspected and hazards resolved

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• Young trees - watering as required

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• Formative pruning to encourage strong leader and good growth form

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• Maintain weed free circle through mulching and/or chemical weed control

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• Check stakes/ties/guards and repair as necessary

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• Mature trees - removal epicormic/basal growth

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• Remove self sown saplings

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Leaf and snow fall - Management Aim - To ensure safe access to the gardens is maintained at all times and to maintain the gardens and leaves largely clear of leaf fall.

• Leaf fall - Lawns and path to be kept free of leaves during leaf fall

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• Flower beds - Bedding and herbaceous beds to be kept free of leaves during leaf fall

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• Shrub beds - Leaf fall to be cleared as required to maintain appearance of beds

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• Snow clearance - Clear paths and hard surfaces to enable access

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Green waste

• Composting areas - Managed, weed free and tidy

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Irrigation

• Clean inlets/outlets, filters, pipes and electrics

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Tennis court

• Maintain court in safe and good condition fit for use

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Playground

• Evidence of inspections

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• Equipment condition

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• Top up playback

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Health and safety

• Evidence of Monthly Health and safety audits

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• Evidence of PPE Audits

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• Correct reporting of incidents

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• Machinery safety - guards in place, safe machinery use

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• Evidence of Risk assessments

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• Evidence of COSHH files

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• Good tool management

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