Grounds

The University is justly proud of its grounds, gardens and woodland.  Grounds Services provides a professional range of landscaping, horticultural and arboricultural services to develop, maintain and regenerate the University's external landscape and ensuring it remains in a good condition, enhancing the University's image and contributing to the wellbeing of its staff, students and visitors and neighbours. 

Grounds Services operates with a team who are dedicated and proud of the University's grounds.  Various members of the team are trained in specialist techniques including application of pesticides, use of chainsaws, aboriculture and use of specialist machinery and equipment.

Core Activities

• Design, creation and horticultural maintenance of grass and turf for ornamental, sport and amenity use
• Creation and maintenance of shrubberies, hedges, herbaceous and annual borders
• Horticultural and arboricultural services related to new and mature tree and shrub stock
• Provision of planted containers
• Installation and maintenance of hard and soft landscaping schemes
• Maintenance of external hard standing areas
• Cleaning of pedestrian surface areas 
• Cleaning and maintenance of campus and street furniture (seats, bollards, bins, lamps stands, signage)
• Campus litter and weed control
• Snow and ice clearance and gritting
• Waste Management and Recycling
  • Aluminium Cans, Cardboard, General Waste, Glass, Paper and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
• Graffiti and poster removal

Supplementary Services (chargeable)

• Supply of plants and flowers displays for special events
• Provision of interior plants