Project: Landscaping: outdoor classroom at North Binfields
Client: Hampshire County Council
Value: £34,000

The Council’s aim was to open up an area of unmanaged, and previously inaccessible, mature conifer woodland to provide an educational resource for local schoolchildren.

Works included: vegetation management; clearance of vegetation from site for future play area; construction of an outdoor classroom.

Initial tree works:

• bat survey, bat-sensitive tree felling.
• lowering hedge height.
• tree inspections for health and safety.

Soft landscaping:

• 1,000 transplants/shrubs.
• 10 standard trees.
• 100 aquatic plants.

Hard landscaping:

• 60m boardwalk.
• 140m woodland path (h/w chips).
• 100m explorers’ trail.
• 120sqm pond with decking.