Grounds and Environmental Service
Oxford Direct Services understands the importance of creating the right environment within our communities for residents and visitors to live and work. Whether it's your business premises or residential property, we can deliver a comprehensive range of environmental services to create and maintain a high quality environment.
We have longstanding experience of working in the commercial sector with local organisations. Works range from litter picking on our local highways to providing thorough deep cleans of car parks and surrounding areas. We can offer countryside, cemetery and sports management services, in addition to play area inspections and arboricultural services.
We are also dedicated to meeting the needs of our private residential customers, carrying out the removal of graffiti, fly posting and fly tipping on private property to garden clearances, general horticulture maintenance and tree works.
We are local to Oxford and operate an extensive range of plant and equipment within our fleet. This ensures we are able to undertake a broad range of environmental services tailored to the needs of our customers, while providing business continuity.
Services Offered
Our services meet the needs of customers requiring grounds maintenance management and can be delivered to highways, housing estates, public open spaces, business premises or residential dwellings.
We can provide ad hoc services, as well as more frequent scheduled work programmes and service arrangements tailored to meet your requirements.
Thorough deep cleans
We can tailor our deep clean services to meet your exact requirements offering one-off deep cleans through to scheduled cleansing programmes.
Our teams are fully qualified to deliver services to the highest of standards.
Services can include washing of external areas, litter picking and mechanical sweeping.
Landscape maintenance requirements
We can cover all of your landscaping needs, from initial design and ad hoc constructions to scheduled maintenance programmes, including grass cutting and planting.
State of the art machinery, including large scale plant equipment and smaller compact machines suitable for use in pedestrian areas, guarantee the flexibility and reassurance that the right tool will be used for the job.
- Hard landscape maintenance - Including the construction of footpaths, shrub beds etc
- Soft landscape maintenance - Including grass cutting, leaf clearance, shrub/hedge maintenance and planting
General horticultural maintenance including garden clearances and weed spraying
We have a long list of specialist services typically including but not limited too; grass cutting, shrub bed maintenance, planting and pruning, hedge maintenance, flowers bed creation and comprehensive weed spraying treatments.
Tree services, including tree surveying, tree planting and maintenance
Our knowledgeable team of experts can provide solutions to all your tree needs. From tree felling to planting we comply with all the necessary regulations for your complete piece of mind.
Frequent operational, technical and safety training ensures our expertly skilled staff are able to offer a first class service every time.
Street furniture installations to play area inspections
We can carry out the installation of street furniture from the installation of lighting and benches to road and street name signs and lifebelts.
We are also able to offer play area inspections including installations, repairs and maintenance.
Sports and fine turf management and maintenance
From tennis courts and bowling greens to sports fields and golf courses we can offer you an individual approach to maintaining your turf.
Regular and seasonal maintenance can be offered to improve its condition following excessive wear and tear and/or damage from poor weather conditions.
Cemetery and countryside management including tractor works
We can implement extensive maintenance programmes and provide advice and information for both cemetery and countryside management issues.
We are able to offer memorial inspections and grave digging as well as tractor works, including hedge and long grass flailing. Please ask our dedicated team for more information.
Graffiti and fly poster removal
We provide advice about graffiti and fly poster removal for private buildings and businesses.
Quotations for private work are available on request.
Our graffiti removal equipment uses no harmful chemicals and is environmentally friendly in its operation.
Abandoned vehicle, bicycle, fly tipping and sharps removal and disposal
Our permanently employed local staff have a wealth of experience and training and are qualified for dangerous goods and hazardous materials transportation, including the safe removal of nuisance vehicles, unlicensed asbestos and sharps.
We have a waste carriers licence and comply with all the necessary regulations for the disposal of waste, dangerous goods and hazardous materials, ensuring your legal compliance and peace of mind.
We also offer:
Why Choose Oxford Direct Services?
- All-encompassing environmental services from a single provider
- Environmental fleet of over 180 vehicles and plant
- State of the art equipment to deal with the removal of graffiti and fly posting
- Walk behind/drive-on equipment for use in pedestrian areas, including hot wash and chewing gum removal machines
- Qualified to deal with dangerous goods and hazardous materials transportation including unlicensed asbestos, sharps and nuisance vehicles
- Dedicated Arboricultural Team for all tree work requirements
- Fully licensed waste carrier ensuring your legal protection
- Flexible collections
- Accredited Services:
- Investors in People
- ISO9001
- ISO14001 - Demonstrating the environmental management system meets the given standard
- Members of Keep Britain Tidy and the Association for Public Service Excellence
- Purple Flag Award has national recognised Oxford City Centre as offering an excellent night-time economy. Areas accessed included hygiene standards, which we are responsible for
- Green Flag Award; Four of our Cities parks have been awarded the Green Flag Status nationally recognising the best green spaces in the county
Testimonials
"I am writing to send my thanks to the road cleaner, who on the morning of Monday 8th August tidied up Turl Street. He was using a hard bristled brush, getting into all nooks, which a modern road sweeping machine would normally miss.
Please send on my compliments, and I hope that we see him soon. He did an excellent job!"
Walters & Co (Oxford) Ltd
"Oxfordshire County Council has been utilising the services of the Oxford City Council Tree Team for over five years now. During this period we have received an excellent standard of work on our trees located within Oxford City."
Tim Shickle, Arboricultural Manager, Oxfordshire County Council
Page last reviewed 2 March 2012
