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THE
OUTSIDE
WORLD
DURING
Media City has been designed to
provide a purposebuilt home for
creative and digital businesses
including (but not exclusively) the
BBC. The first phase, spread over 36 acres, will be
com-pleted in 2011 but there is the potential to use
up to 200 acres of land over the next decade.
Our works included the laying of 30,000 square
metres of natural stone paving, the cladding of walls,
steps, terraces and a footbridge over the Canal.
The Landscape Group was
awarded the contract for
the external works by
Bovis Lend Lease at
Media City in Salford Quays,
the country’s first
media city.
The creation of the central piazza area saw the
planting of large semi mature trees and other more
general planting, together with the creation of resin
bound footpaths, the installation of granite planters,
lighting and the installation of surface water drainage.
Individual pocket parks were created; these
included ornamental planting, resin paths, lawns
and dividing walls.
The developers and their subsequent tenants
were concerned that this long term development
ABOUT THE
LANDSCAPE GROUP
The Landscape
Group focuses
on hard and
soft landscaping and external works
packages, and specialises in undertaking
and efficiently delivering larger
more complex multi-disciplinary
external works projects, where they
are responsible for the whole of the
work on the site.
With a combined turnover of £50
million and employing on average 1100
staff, The Landscape Group is a market
leader, with the consistency and quality
of our service being recognised with
almost 100 national awards.
National coverage is provided from a
strategically placed network of Regional
Offices, which enable The Landscape
Group to deliver a first-class local service
with the back up and resources of a
major contractor.
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MEDIA CITY, MANCHESTER –
£3.7 MILLION
Client: Peel Media
Landscape Architect: Gillespies
Awards: BALI Award 2011 –
Hard Landscaping, Construction,
Cost Over £1.5 million
delivered a longer term social legacy in this
previously deprived area of Salford. The Landscape
Group’s contribution to this was the recruitment,
training and development of Landscape Apprentices
during the project.
CHALLENGES
The biggest challenges concerned the sheer size and
complexity of and the exceptionally high quality
expectations for this internationally high profile
development. At any one time there would be in
excess of 2,000 personnel working in and around
the site. As building fit outs were taking place after
the hard landscaping elements had been installed,
trying to protect the paving created a major
challenge. This was overcome by liaising with other
contractors and forming close working relationships
but inevitably resulted in even further complicated
logistics and planning. Liaison has also included the
interfacing with the builders of a new metro station
which is adjacent to Media City.
The Group employed a dedicated Logistics
Manager to co ordinate all deliveries to and
movements on the site. A large part of this project
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The Landscape Group carries out regular
reviews with clients during the lifetime of
each project and in this way we are able to
compare performance against expectations.
Plan design
DURING
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REFERENCES
The Landscape Group
Landscapes House, First Floor Offices,
3 Rye Hill Office Park, Birmingham Road,
Allesley, Coventry CV5 9A
Web: www.thelandscapegroup.co.uk
Tel: 02476 405660
Email: coventry@thelandscapegroup.co.uk
Bovis Lend Lease Limited
142 Northolt Road, Harrow,
Middlesex HA2 OEE
Web: www.bovis.co.uk
Tel: 020 8271 8000
Gillespies
Westgate House, 44 Hale Road,
Hale, Cheshire WA14 2EX
Web: www.gillespies.co.uk
Tel: 0161 928 7715
Email: jim.gibson@gillespies.co.uk
AFTER
Lawn supplied by:
Rolawn Limited
Elvington, York YO41 4XR
Web: www.rolawn.co.uk
Tel: 0845 604 6050/01904 608661
Email: info@rolawn.co.uk
entailed the coordination of granite imports and
planning ensuring that the right materials got to
the right part of the site on a just in time basis.
The materials arrived at Liverpool where it was
trans shipped onto the barges for its onward
journey. Around three quarters of a million
pieces of granite were delivered by barge along
the Manchester Ship Canal. Not only was this a
low environmental and traffic impact delivery
solution but a fitting mode of transport as this
development is on land formerly owned by the
Canal Company.
DURING
The Canal Company was formed in 1885;
a previous development that transformed the
economic prosperity of Manchester as this one
is set to do again. Upon unloading, the granite was
logged and coded according to its eventual
destination, stored and subsequently transported
to each site zone, as required.
The result of all this hard work is a unique,
modern and yet surprisingly green urban cityscape
that is at the centre of this remarkable development.
The Landscape Group
www.thelandscapegroup.co.uk
Coronet Turf
Ashe Warren Farm, Overton, Basingstoke,
Hampshire RG25 3AW
Web: www.coronet-turf.co.uk
Tel: 01256 771222
Email: coronet@coronet-turf.co.uk
Trees & Planting:
Specimen Trees
High Legh Estate Office, Knutsford,
Cheshire WA16 0QS
Web: www.specimentrees.net
Tel: 01925 755204
Van den Berk Nurseries
Michael Queree – Agent United Kingdom
Web: www.vdberk.co.uk
Tel: 01892 522 360
Email: michael@vdberk.co.uk
Johnsons of Whixley
Whixley, York YO26 8AQ
Web: www.nurserymen.co.uk
Tel: 01423 330234
Email: sales@nurserymen.co.uk
Lorenz von Ehren Nurseries
Sandford Gate, East Point Business Park,
Oxford OX4 6LB
Web: www.lve-baumschule.de
Tel: 01865 910261
Email: Sebastian@LvE.de
Resin Bonded Footpaths:
Midland Decorative Surfaces
St. Andrews House, 76 St Andrews Road
Bordesley, Birmingham B9 4LN
Web: www.decorativesurfaces.co.uk
Tel: 0121 766 8705
Email: Pat@fbservices.co.uk
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