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Ground Control Ltd

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Kingfisher House,
Radford Way,
Billericay,
Essex,
CM12 0EQ,
United Kingdom

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Grass Cutting & Mowing

Grass Cutting & Mowing

Our experienced commercial grass cutting and professional lawn care teams work with clients to create the perfect service for their needs. We can provide a range of up-to-date services, from creating and maintaining wildflower growth through to pristine lawn care and weed-control programmes.

Our tailored services include zero-carbon and electric solutions and industry leading GPS-enabled robot mowing, with customer safety is paramount throughout. Our teams have the skills, experience and equipment to meet your lawn maintenance requirements however often you need them.

Our in-house arborists deliver a range of services to various sectors. Among these are:

Pristine lawn care for attractions and destinations
Commercial lawns for every need
Grounds maintenance for water utilities
Frequent cutting for office parks and housing developments
Biodiversity enhancements for nature reserves
Bespoke services for sports grounds, schools and cemeteries
Hedge Cutting & Maintenance

Hedge Cutting & Maintenance

Our fully trained operatives work with our Queens Award-winning app ‘TotalVeiw’ to offer a fully unique and customer satisfaction-based service. Our experienced teams can tailor requirements for frequently maintained pristine hedgerows through to rustic natural borders with less frequent visits.

Using our scheduling app, our teams work with customers to fit their schedules, ensuring business continuity at premier attractions and all commercial properties.

Our nationwide hedge maintenance and cutting services focus on the biodiversity needs of sites, with support from our in-house professionals to maintain spaces to the highest quality. Our hedge cutting teams support shrub clearance and maintenance with a year-round service.
Line Marking

Line Marking

Line painting and road marking done with precision.
Litter Picking

Litter Picking

Our professional and safety conscious litter picking caters year-round for all commercial premises and events across the UK including supermarkets, retail outlets, and leisure facilities, as well as supporting local authorities.

Our nationwide experienced teams are client-focused, supporting one-off events and regular contracts, as well as large volume contracts that can ensure a litter free environment − all of which can be supported from our award-winning live-form-site reporting technology that drives customer satisfaction.

As part of environmental focus, we aim to recycle waste wherever possible, and can support companies to off-set and reduce their environmental impact.
Pothole Repairs

Pothole Repairs

Ground Control offers a nationwide pothole repair and patchwork services for any location, site, and sector. Installed by trained professionals, our innovated pothole solution is low cost, has a reduced environmental impact compared to the traditional solutions, and can be driven on immediately after installation with no setting time required.

Our client-focused approach allows for flexible scheduling and supports business continuity with no need for large industrial vehicles or road closures.

As part of our high industry standards and company wide accreditations, we work to the highest industry standards for both quality and health and safety, and all pothole repairs have a 3-year product guarantee.

Our pothole services also include:

Line Marking
Manhole Covers and Drainage Channel Repairs
Full Tarmacking and resurfacing
Tree Works

Tree Works

Our fully qualified services take into consideration the specific needs of tree species and customer requirements to determine the British Standard ‘best action’ and to support our wider biodiversity and habitat creation aims.

Our services include the removal and treatment of dead and diseased trees, creation of totem trees and the installation of addition trees and shrubbery to enhance areas. We also provide:

Day-to-day tree surgery and maintenance
Reactive and emergency tree works
Tree maintenance plans and on-site inspections
Canopy thinning
Planting and related services to create positively enhanced environments

All our works take environmental issues into consideration, avoiding key bird nest months to minimise the impact of any works and, working alongside our own in-house ecologists where required.
Weed Control & Invasive Weed Management

Weed Control & Invasive Weed Management

Our professional weed management and control services support the establishment of native species and help clients achieve their overall visions for their green spaces. We create professional plans and deliver tailor-made services to clients across the country.

Our invasive weed management plans and services are designed to prevent physical and biological damage by tackling non-native species such as Japanese Knotweed, Giant Hogweed, Himalayan Balsam, Hog Weed and many more.

Among the services we offer are

Identification of weeds and associated issues
Prevention plans and specialist advice
Implementation of controls and measures
Legal requirements advice
Pest Control

Pest Control

All our pest control and pest management services are run by a key account manager who will assess the specific customer needs and find the right solution for their circumstance.

Our nationwide services aim to use sympathetic, non-toxic and environmentally friendly methods wherever possible. Where this is not possible our teams work together with clients to find a suitable solution.

When completing any work, our flexible services are carried out taking full consideration of clients’ core and normal operations to minimise any potential impact on their business.

The scope of services includes control of flies, rodents, flying insects, non-native snakes and spiders, as well as bird and wildlife management and bedbug elimination. All our services are carried out by our highly qualified BPCA/RSPH Level 2 Operatives.
Specialist Cleaning Services

Specialist Cleaning Services

Our specialist commercial cleaning teams offer ongoing contracts and one-off support to all sectors and property types, with specialist equipment to meet the clients cleaning requirements including:

Walkway, Paving and Car Park Cleaning
Canopy and Gully Cleans
Graffiti Removal and Gum Removal
Brickwork and Rendering Cleaning
Sports Surface Cleaning
Full site deep cleans and site cleansing

Our nationwide coverage utilises specialist cleaning equipment that is adaptable to the services needs of clients, and suitable for any industry and sector. Our teams are experienced in working in Blue Chip, industrial, educational, healthcare, local authorities, retail, and many more.

We offer cleaning solutions for a range of budgets and requirements, all of which adhere to our high standards and industry accreditations, and can operate alongside our Queens-Award winning ‘live from site’ technology that drives customers satisfaction.
Asset Management, Pole Numbering & Tagging

Asset Management, Pole Numbering & Tagging

We serve the utility and rail sectors with asset management and electricity pole numbering and tagging services, using unique technology platforms to track faults, damaged or missing poles and any other access issues along the UK’s crucial infrastructure.

Our pole numbering and tagging technologies identify damage to poles and enable a reactive maintenance service.

As part of our work for Western Power Distribution, we tagged 380,000 electricity poles with a unique number, demonstrating our ability to take on any size or scale of project.

Our thorough live reporting service provides customers with up-to-date, detailed reports and photographic evidence of work. This cloud-based system is secure and accurate, informing customers of potential hazards in real time.

We operate throughout the UK, including remote locations, and are trusted to work with major district network operators across the country.
Integrated Tree & Vegetation Management Plans

Integrated Tree & Vegetation Management Plans

Whether you need tree management at scale across multiple sites or advice on the aftercare and maintenance of vegetation at a new development, our fully integrated tree management plans offer cost-effective solutions that care for our environment and surrounding communities.

Key aspects of our service include tree surveying and inspections, live reporting of tree data, ecological surveys, tree surgery, tree felling and replacement planting.

The benefits of our tree management plans include market-tested agreed rates, ISO 9001, 18001 and 14001 accredited systems, a technically competent team and excellent savings.

We have more than 40 years’ experience in tree management, having implemented plans for some major conglomerates in numerous sectors.
Mechanised Arboriculture & Site Clearance

Mechanised Arboriculture & Site Clearance

We can deliver significant cost savings to your vegetation management project by deploying our fleet of mechanical kit, which offers a precise and efficient mechanised arboriculture solution for any business.

From the Menzi Muck with two-metre legs that can jump over fences, stand in rivers and lakes and climb extreme slopes, to the 27-tonne Kobelco for clearing vast areas of site, and the compact Kubota, our machinery can clear any hard-to-reach vegetation with minimal disruption to the environment.

Meet the Machines:

Menzi Muck
Kobelco SK270SRLC
Case CX130D
Kubota KX 080-4
Bandit 20XP 315HP Whole Tree
Valtra T254
Valtra 172 V
Gritting & Salt Spreading

Gritting & Salt Spreading

We operate nationwide from over 200 gritting teams and depot locations, from which we deploy our fleet of salt spreaders and winter gritting lorries. Working with local teams, we are permanently close by, at your service whatever the weather. Being local, helps us reduce our carbon footprint.

Our proactive service ensures that your site has a winter maintenance plan, which is necessary to ensure your business stays safe and open through the winter. Service is triggered based on the weather forecast for road conditions.

We apply salt before frost, ice, or snowfall forms. This activates the salt to prevent bonding with the road surface.

All visits are reported on our bespoke portal, TotalView. This Queens Award-winning technology includes vehicle tracking and gives clients complete transparency of our work in real-time. This evidence is essential for both ensuring quality and providing evidence in the unlikely event of a legal claim.

We store more than 50,000 tonnes of salt stock for winter gritting, providing 20 days’ worth of salt stock at all of our depots. We have additional emergency salt stored at locations nationally in the event of prolonged periods of cold or icy weather conditions.

Other winter gritting services we provide include supplying grit bins (and replenishments), snow shovels, and, on request, salt orders.

Established in 1973, we have built up a powerful reputation as a leading provider of winter gritting and snow clearance, always making sure to create bespoke maintenance plans for each and every client.
Snow Clearance

Snow Clearance

Heavy snowfall can disrupt business operations and impact the safety of premises for customers and staff.

We understand accessibility is important to a business, so we work to ensure your site’s day-to-day operations remain unhindered by the weather.
We plan attendance with predictive forecasting, first applying additional salt when snowfall is forecast to prevent snow from bonding to the road surface. When snow does fall and accumulations reach 5cm deep, our dedicated snow teams coordinate with you on site to attend, often ploughing overnight or attending in day if requested.

We tailor our service to match the needs of your individual site, our teams know your sites. They will use different equipment where required, from hydraulic snow ploughs to reach more impractical areas with ease to pedestrian operated snow blades.

If you are interested in our snow clearance services, please make sure you apply before the season begins in October. This allows us to effectively prepare our clearance vehicles and units to suit your specific needs.
Specialist Weather Forecasting

Specialist Weather Forecasting

British weather can be unpredictable, with adverse conditions often striking unexpectedly. We can help your business plan for every eventuality using our reliable specialist weather forecasting services. The data is received from various forecast providers, including the Met Office, whose forecasting has served the UK for decades.

Innovative technology drives the efficiency of our specialist weather monitoring and we continue to invest in IT, vehicle tracking and telematics systems to provide our clients with up-to-the-minute field reports, data and forecasting services.

We have used this technology to work extensively with commercial clients across the UK, including facilities management, utilities, retail, industrial, healthcare and many more.
Biodiversity Action Plans

Biodiversity Action Plans

With a team of biodiversity experts who have shaped the national policy, metrics and guidance used today, we are uniquely placed to help organisations assess and plan for biodiversity impacts. Our services include baseline surveys, biodiversity impact assessments and biodiversity action plans. Working with us, clients execute effective Biodiversity Net Gain with smarter design, delivery, and management for the duration of the net gain agreement.
Ecological Appraisals

Ecological Appraisals

Ground Control ecologists are experts in the delivery of Preliminary Ecological Appraisal, Mapping Species Specific Surveys, eDNA & DNA Testing, Botanical Surveys, Biodiversity Metric Calculations, Soils and Ground Investigations, Hydrology and Water Quality. Helping landowners to define smart ecology targets and designing measurable habitat improvements, we make green gains happen.
Woodland Creation

Woodland Creation

Our specialist woodland creation and planting services provide clients with a full suite of bespoke options suitable for any project.

Working with specialists and consultants, our in-house professionals evaluate sites, complete feasibility studies and create planting and woodland designs tailored to clients specific needs.

We are experienced in professional site preparation and woodland planting that meets the UK Forestry Standard (UKFS) and is compliant in installation and stock sourcing. This extends across all our planting options, such as:

Micro forests
Food forests
Orchard tree planting
Specimen tree planting
Hedgerows
Small-scale woodlands and shelterbelts
Large-scale woodland creation
Nature-Related Risk Disclosure

Nature-Related Risk Disclosure

With momentum building behind the market-led Taskforce for Nature Related Financial Disclosures, we’re helping organisations identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities relating to nature, biodiversity, and climate resilience. Unlocking the insight held within environmental data for strategic planning, risk management and asset allocation decisions and ensuring corporations and financial institutions are prepared for mandatory disclosure.
Podiums & Roof Gardens

Podiums & Roof Gardens

Our roof and podium garden construction services offer contemporary solutions to projects of any size and scale.

With a professional in-house design team and an accredited landscape construction service, we are experienced in working independently as a designer, as principal contractor and as a sub-contractor. Our expertise enables us to carry out complete ‘Design and Build’ contracts.

We deliver the full range of landscape construction services for roof and podium gardens, including hard and soft landscaping, planting and grounds maintenance.

Our multi-award-winning services that go beyond industry standards are supported by a robust and ethical supply chain and our business-wide biodiversity objectives, which showcase human nature at its best.
Grounds Maintenance

Grounds Maintenance

We offer innovative grounds maintenance services that support the specific needs of our customers. Our services are available nationwide for any sector, including some of the UK’s premier attractions, green spaces and woodlands.

Central to our professional commercial grounds maintenance is our desire to bring together people and nature and provide an enriched environment for customers to enjoy and nature to thrive.
Road Sweeper Hire

Road Sweeper Hire

We provide full contract site sweepers and road sweeping services to numerous industrial, commercial, construction, civil engineering and utility companies, local authorities, retail outlets and supermarket chains. Our sweeper operators are all CSCS Registered.

We operate one of the largest and most up to date road sweeper hire fleets in Yorkshire. All our sweeper vehicles are fitted with superwash high pressure spray bars, hand lances, litter snatch wander hoses and rear-view safety camera systems.

We utilise metered standpipes as authorised by Yorkshire Water Services. Each of our sweeper vehicles carries a fully licensed standpipe.
Drain Maintenance

Drain Maintenance

Our dedicated CCTV survey team are equipped with the expertise and equipment to carry out all aspects of drainage survey works from a basic homeowner survey to more complex drainage condition surveys and tracing.

We supply a comprehensive report with all our completed CCTV surveys, which will also outline any remedial works required to rectify any defects which may have come to light during the survey. Our team have the expertise to complete all drainage remediation works from the simple household gullys replacement to ‘CIP (cured in place) No Dig’ drain lining where open excavation is an impractical solution.
Commercial Hard & Soft Landscaping

Commercial Hard & Soft Landscaping

Our commercial landscape and construction services comprise professional and experienced teams who support the goals and visions of our clients and architects.

We operate as both a principal and sub-contractor, are supported by several in-house professional services including ecology and design and offer expert solutions for all projects and budgets.

Our multi award-winning projects are delivered across both hard and soft landscaping, working to the highest standards of health and safety and to our ‘right first time’ approach. This is supported by a number of industry ISO accreditations and memberships such as BALI and Association of Fencing.
Landscape Architecture

Landscape Architecture

Our landscape architects design and deliver innovative, sustainable landscapes that respond positively to the natural environment.

We have been a registered landscape architectural practice since 1997 and form the design consultancy practice of Ground Control.

The team operates throughout the UK and can design projects of any scale, from small, intricate sites to some of the UKs largest and most iconic outdoor settings.

We work with our construction and estimating teams to provide an end-to-end service, from inception through to full design and construction.
Our work is accredited and recognised by BALI, the British Association of Landscaping Industries from which we have won multiple awards including the Grand award in 2019 for the Children's Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens KEW. This project also won the Landscape Institute Partnership and Collaboration Award in 2020.

About us

Delivering cutting edge landscaping services across the UK, Ground Control Ltd are an Essex-based company with over 40 years’ collective experience in providing high quality external solutions for a number of applications. Originally established in 1973, our company has grown into the UK’s number one provider of multi-award winning external options for ground maintenance, landscape construction and more. We offer a national service to thousands of commercial sites every single year, delivering innovative, creative landscapes that cannot possibly be matched.

Since establishment, our company has used the latest technologies and practices to provide cost effective, high quality solutions for domestic, commercial and industrial applications all over the country. Our team of professionals are focused entirely on ensuring that clients receive the best possible service on the market, which is achieved through attention to detail and thorough experience. We are widely recognised for our commitment to delivering a broad range of services on a national and international scale.

Here at Ground Control, we are proud to provide a unique range of services that are second to none, including;

Grounds Maintenance − Grass Cutting & Mowing, Hedge Cutting & Maintenance, Tree Works, Weed Control & Invasive Weed Management, Litter Picking, Line Parking, Pothole Repairs & Fencing Services.

Arboriculture & Vegetation Management − Tree Surveying, Integrated Tree & Vegetation Management, Weed Control & Invasive Weed Management, Tree Felling & Arboricultural Works.

Winter Maintenance − Forecasting & Monitoring, Gritting & Salt & Snow Clearance.

Landscape Construction − Commercial Hard & Soft Landscaping, Large Tree Installation, Fencing Services, Podiums & Roof Gardens & Play Areas & Sports Facilities.

Design, Ecology & Arboricultural Consultancy − Landscape Architecture, Ecology, Arboricultural Consultancy, GIS & Mapping.

Roofing − Reactive Roofing & Maintenance, Pitched Roofing, Flat Roofing & Green Roofing.

Specialist Cleaning Services − Jet Washing, Canopy & Gully Cleaning, Graffiti Removal, Litter Picking & Fly Tipping.

We at Ground Control cater for numerous industries and sectors such as hotels & leisure, historic properties, healthcare & emergency services, retail, utilities, facilities management, ministry of defence, local authorities & parks, sports, infrastructure & highways, logistics, education, industrial, social housing, corporate and charity & community. Our vast sector experience has allowed for excellent service from initial design concept through to production and installation. We take a professional, efficient approach to our work which has resulted in an outstanding reputation.

We as a company are proud to have worked alongside some of the UK’s largest brands including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, NHS, Travelodge, Severn Trent Water, Halfords and many more. We offer a dynamic, flexible service that customers have praised over the years for being effective and beneficial to their needs. We comply with the latest environmental legislations for health and safety, reducing waste, diversity, responsible procurement and design, renewable energy, supporting communities, social responsibility and the modern slavery statement.

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