This environmental guidance is for businesses that design, build and maintain gardens and landscapes. Landscaping activities include grassing, planting, hard landscaping, fencing, ground maintenance and chemical weed control.
Landscaping includes the planting, care and maintenance of:
- private and public parks and gardens, eg houses, schools, hospitals, municipal parks and green areas
- sports grounds, play grounds and lawns, eg football fields, golf courses and recreational parks
- interior and exterior landscapes, eg roof gardens, façade greenery and indoor gardens
- greenery along highways and waterways, eg roads, train lines, waterways, ponds, ditches and watercourses.
This guidance is relevant to landscaping professionals, such as landscape gardeners, grounds maintenance contractors, tree surgeons, landscape maintenance providers, landscape architects, landscape designers and providers of landscaping services.
If you carry out construction activities see our guidance for construction and building trades.
If you work in forestry see our guidance for forestry.
If you work in farming and agriculture see our guidance for agriculture.
Environmental impacts of landscaping businesses
Landscaping businesses can have a number of impacts on the environment. Examples include:
- land contamination from spills of oil, fertilisers and pesticides
- noise pollution from machinery
- waste disposal such as hedge trimmings and soil
- water discharges such as contaminated water from stripped earth.
How can NetRegs help you?
Our guidance could help you to:
- avoid prosecution and receive fewer visits from environmental regulators
- increase efficiency and productivity
- reduce your operating costs
- be more likely to obtain business from government bodies and large businesses that require their business partners to manage their environmental impacts effectively
- improve your reputation amongst staff, customers and the public
- increase the chance of securing funding to expand your business by demonstrating that your environmental impacts are well managed.
