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Dumbarton Public Realm

In recent years we have carried out extensive upgrading works to the Public Realm in Dumbarton Town Centre, including Phase 1 Dumbarton Gate, College Street, Risk Street, the associated Car parks & Wynds, and High Street Phases 2 and 3, improving the appearance of the various streets and spaces within Dumbarton Town Centre, in accordance with Dumbarton’s Public Realm Design Guide.

These works included the renewal of the various hard surfaces to roads and footpaths, improving and extending car parks in and around the town centre, and implementing traffic restrictions within the central section of the High Street to control congestion, in response to various research and a public consultation of 2004.

Key to providing a brighter and enhanced town centre we substantially upgraded the street lighting system and refurbished the wynds and closes connecting pedestrians from the car parks to the High Street, and carried out builders work refurbishment to two underpasses.

These works were funded by West Dunbartonshire Council, the former Scottish Enterprise Dunbartonshire, the Scottish Executive's Public Transport Fund and the European Regional Development Fund, and incorporated the highest quality of workmanship and materials as follows:-

• Caithness flagstones
• Polished and hewn granites
• Random rubble walling
• Iguzzini street lighting system
• Tarmacadam surfacing
• Ornamental metalwork
• Planting of street trees and soft landscaping
• Traditional whin setts
• Cropped granite setts
• Ashlar retaining and decorative walling
• Claydon Architectural Metalwork railings
• Traditional wheeler kerbs
• Whin gutter stones and kerbs
• Builders work to underpasses

The majority of these works were carried out in close proximity to the heart of the town centre and demanded close and successful liason with shopkeepers, bar and restaurant owners and the general public throughout.

The Principal Landscape Architect for these works provided feedback in accordance with Constructionline Quality Assurance and reference procedures to confirm that their practice was “totally satisfied with the overall quality of product” and in respect of workmanship that Landscapes and Contracts Ltd is “One of the best we work with.”

North Lanarkshire

Throughout the last several years we have developed strong Links with Local Government, Housing Associations, Education and Clients in the private sector in North Lanarkshire, as well as Training Organisation's and Employment Agencies. This has enabled us to tailor our “fully professional” services to our individual Clients, who in turn have provided us with repeat business over the years ensuring our controlled growth as shown below. We are the proud current sponsors of North Lanarkshire Council’s Service Provider of the Year, an ethos that we aspire to in every respect.

2002	£215,000
2003	£350,000
2004	£490,000
2005	£710,000
2006	£1,300,000
2007	£1,300,000
2008	£2,200,000

We have an ongoing framework agreement with the appropriate authorities to deliver Intermediate Labour Market training, resulting in a respectable percentage of our Employees having been procured in this way.

Examples of Urban Regeneration and Back Court Renewal Projects

Deedes Street Phases 1 and 2, Airdrie

£500,000

Hunters Street, Airdrie

£170,000

Renfrew Street, Phase 1

£150,000

Craigneuk Community Park, Airdrie

£150,000

Example of Environmental Improvement Schemes

Woodside, Glen & Doonside Towers, Motherwell

£650,000

Example of Soft Landscaping

Strathclyde Business Park

£150,000

Examples of Car parks and Infrastructure

Tannochside Park

£600,000

Marshall's Plc, Carluke

£150,000

Example of Children’s Play Area

Abronhill Community Park

£425,000

Further to the successful completion of the above project at Abronhill our Client confirmed that Landscapes and Contracts Ltd provided a “service that was fully professional at all times” and that all parties were “fully satisfied with the result”.

Renfrewshire

We are immensely proud that our staff and employees played a significant role throughout the 1990’s in the upgrading and regeneration of Paisley Town Centre’s Public Realm, and are the current proud sponsors of the Paisley 10k fun run.

Paisley Abbey Public Realm of 1996 won a Bali award, and was the centre-piece of Paisley’s £12m Public Realm Programme on which our Brian MacAlister I. Eng.,M.I.C.E Contracts Manager, was the Engineer’s Representative, throughout. Brian MacAlister has a proven track record in this sector and has overseen all of our similar projects since joining our team in June 2005.

A significant proportion of our staff and Employees worked with Brian on Abbey Close and various other high quality works to Paisley’s Public Realm during this period, and the principles learned have helped make our Company what it is today, where around 40 full-time Landscapes and Contracts Limited site employees undertake all Civils and Landscaping works on-site, ensuring that programmes are implemented to suit the project rather than the demands and requirements of hired-in subcontract labour.

Note that our considerations in respect of programming are based on restrictions imposed by public safety, businesses, shops, traffic and the general public in consultation with our various Clients.

Examples of our attention to detail as extracted from our Standard Procedures:-

• All riven material, Caithness flagstones, sandstones, etc are delivered in pallets of constant colour, pre-stacked with spacers to protect edges and approximately equal thicknesses for ease of selection and laying. The laying of natural riven material, where the units are shaped from the sand beds from which they are split, is slower and requires a far greater level of skill than that required for the laying of pre-cast modular units of uniform thickness.

• The design life of a high quality project should far exceed that of a similar project constructed of pre-cast materials, and should hence be constructed meticulously, sympathetically and considerately.

• Our method of work and close liason with traders, businesses and the public etc, mean that no complaints will be made to our head office, and that any issues that come to light through the regular progress of the works are addressed as they arise by our site staff. A teamwork spirit is to be adopted at all times between all parties involved.
  

• Works are progressed through evenings and early mornings as required to minimise the disruption to the ongoing town centre as appropriate, and our method of work involves attending to all cutting-in, adjusting iron work, grouting, sanding, etc, as the works progress, and attending to any snagging highlighted during daily or weekly inspections by the Engineer, which will enable all areas to be completed sequentially.

• Regardless of whether or not sectional handovers are dictated by the Contract Document, our method of applying a rolling programme to our projects where many identifiable individual sections exist, minimises the number of sections that are in progress at any one time, in turn reducing the impact of the project on the Town Centre and all those who use it, still allowing continuity for all of our site staff.
  

Examples of our work for Renfrewshire Council

Civic Amenity Sites, Erskine and Renfrew – Works comprised of site clearance, earthworks and rock breaking, and the construction of extensive 3m high retaining walls to extend existing sites. Access road and footpath networks constructed incorporating new lighting, CCTV and drainage systems, before softworks provided a high quality landscaped finish. All works were completed within a 26 week contract period.

This Contract is scheduled to run until 2010

Housing Associations

We have successfully delivered Environment Works including Pedestrianisation Schemes for Scottish Housing Associations, and give the following examples:-

Southside Housing Association

• McCulloch Street, Pollokshields – Streetscaping works comprising the complete renewal of all hard surfaces, and the construction of parking bays within traffic calming scheme. Marshalls Tegula paving, tarmacadam, street lighting, installation of drainage system, street furniture, planters and tree planting.

• Southdeen Phase 3, Drumchapel – Backcourt reconstruction comprising of the removal and replacement of brick binstores, paved areas, shrub areas, step-ways and metal railings. The works also include the construction of children’s’ play area and the formation of extensive shrub areas. This contract also included a successful training programme.

• Govanhill Streetscape – Roadways, parking areas and footpaths reconfigured and upgraded around Govanhill Park for Mr Paul Miller of Hirst. Street furniture, street tree planting and ornamental metalwork.