The following services are provided by MW Agri
Church Road Playing Field | Frequency | Comments |
Grass cutting (but not collection) across whole field and grass areas of the car park next to Bowls Club | Weekly during the cutting season | Expect a minimum of 24 cuts spread between April and November. |
Grass collection after cutting | Prior to Cricket Club’s home games to be notified to contractor prior to Cricket season | Expect ten games per year when collection after grass cut is required and put into grass clamp in the car park |
Grass Clamp located in car park | To be emptied twice a year | Clamp for temporary storage, also used by Bowls Club. |
Strimming along the field boundaries and tennis court fences and Bowls Club fences and around the Children’s play area equipment and fence and around the new Gym equipment and basket ball hard standing (to be installed shortly) | Fortnightly during the cutting season | Expect a minimum of 14 cuts spread between April and November. Ensure strimming debris does not land in tennis courts. |
The low Hornbeam hedge adjacent to western boundary of Bowls Club | Twice a year. | Weed along the hedge/fence line from the road to the side gate. |
Hedge cutting | Once a year (either prior to or after the nesting season) | Minor trimming of boundary hedges, special attention to the hedge adjacent to the tennis courts and storage containers to ensure an adequate width of footpath and the hedge bordering the residence known as John O ‘Gaddesdens, at the Sports Pavilion car park |
Trimming of Laurel Hedge screen planting adjacent to metal storage containers | Once a year | Just to thicken up this screen of foliage |
Path weed spraying | Three times a year, May, July and September | Footpath from Sports Pavilion to tennis courts and around to telephone exchange. Footpath to Children’s play area from the Bowls Club car park. Around Sports Pavilion building and adjacent car park and around tennis court fence |
Playing field weed spraying | Once in May/June | Spray the entire field with broad leaved weed killer |
Fertilizer dressing | In April/May and in September | Broadcast compound feed to entire 4 acres |
Drainage | Once in November | Vertidrain with spikes all playing surfaces once a year |
Aeration | In April/May and in September | Slit aeration twice a year |
Worm suppressant | Once in November | Apply to all football pitches |
Car park adjacent to Bowls Club. Brushing into grid of loose stones to maintain an even surface | Quarterly | Spare material to be kept spread low at the rear of the car park for easy access. Material to be separately supplied outside this contract |
Rabbit hole filling | Weekly between April and September | Quick check and fill |
White lines for school sports day | Twice a year, usually beginning of May and beginning of June | Provide an eight lane, straight line grid seventy metres long with 10 metre interval cross lines, (middle box i.e. between 30 and 40 metres has five crossbars i.e. two metre intervals). Track runs from the Sports Pavilion towards the Bowls Club, parallel and set back a couple of metres from Church Road |
Grass seeding of bare surfaces | Not included in this contract | To be reviewed annually |
White pitch markings for footballers | Not included in this contract | Contractor liaises directly with the football club if this service is required. |
White pitch markings for cricketers | Not included in this contract | Contractor liaises directly with the cricket club if this service is required. |
Preparation of the cricket square | Not included in this contract | Contractor liaises directly with the cricket club if this service is required. |