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What’s happening at The Green Estate
From prestigious award-wins to exciting project updates – there’s always something happening at The Green Estate!
On Tuesday 21 November, the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) unveiled the membership of its new local-led Business Advisory Board, which included our CEO, Roz Davies. The Board, which is made up of some of South Yorkshire’s brightest and best business leaders, is committed to growing South Yorkshire’s economy and driving business growth in […]
Recent wet weather and storms Babet, Ciarán and Debi resulted in a short delay to the Sustainable Urban Drainage Scheme (SuDS) works, as the ground was too wet for the heavy machinery to be safely operated onsite. With the forecast looking set to improve, we anticipate work to restart onsite in the next couple of […]
On 8 November, our Parks Team celebrated the opening of the new Woodthorpe Ravine playground with teachers and pupils from Prince Edward Primary School. It was lovely to hear that most of the pupils had already started using the equipment at weekends and after school. The headteacher and form teacher were great advocates for outdoor […]
The Bonfire Night Celebration at Manor Fields Park started in 2010 when the park was beginning to mature as a well-loved and well-used landscape, almost ten years after it had been created. Bret Nuttall from The Green Estate Community Interest Company and Craig Judson from MASKK were two of the key instigators. At the time, […]
We were delighted that Bunny Guinness featured our Pictorial Meadows turf in her blog. Bunny Guinness is an award winning landscape architect and garden designer. In addition to her design work, she is a panelist on Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time and writes a weekly column for the Sunday Telegraph. Watch this edition of her […]
Update on SuDS installation in Manor Fields Park. It is designed to ease pressure on Sheffield’s watercourse and sewer network and will support the creation of 148 new homes in the Harborough Rise and Manor Park Avenue areas. It will also create a ‘wetland’ environment that will provide a haven for a diverse range of plants and animals and new walking trails for park visitors to explore.
In this article, Helen, our Head of Commercial Landscapes, highlights some of Pictorial Meadows’ bestselling perennial products over the past year. Pictorial Meadows’ bestselling perennial seed mixes Pictorial Meadows have a range of eight different perennial seed mixes. Each mix is designed around a colour theme or tailored to a specific site requirement. The perennial […]