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If you have a garden, you must keep it tidy.
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Where we collect a service charge, we may provide a gardening service, You can check this with your housing officer.
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If so, our gardener will make sure your garden is well kept. If you have any feedback on this service, please contact us.
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Where we are not responsible to maintain your garden, you may want to do this yourself, or your support workers can arrange for a gardener.
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You must not remove any trees, fences, hedges or sheds without first asking for our permission.
Our Easy Read section is a way of translating difficult information and making it easy to understand.
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Our garden service for tenants
We provide a garden maintenance service to many of our tenants, mainly those who have a communal garden. This service is paid for in your rent.
Those who pay for this service receive two visits a month during April to September, and one visit a month from October to March.
During these visits, our gardeners will carry out one of these tasks (and sometimes more):
- Cutting grass
- Trim hedges
- Small tree maintenance
- Shrub pruning
- Border maintenance
- Prune climbing plants
- Clear hard surfaces
- Sweeping
- Weeding
- Apply weed killer
- Leaf clearance
Our gardeners may not be able to do some jobs. For example, hedge cutting cannot be done between March and August if there are birds nesting. Our gardeners will be able to tell you if they are unable to do these things.
Any garden work which isn't listed above, will cost extra. This will then be arranged separately to your normal service.
If you have any concerns with the work your gardener carries out, please contact your housing officer who will be happy to help.
Did you know we will not remove healthy trees unless they are causing structural damage to your home or they are damaged - we want to help sustain our environment and our planet.