Slateford Green – 2007/08 Landscaping Upgrading

The residents association received the following breakdown on what will be happening over the next year to improve our general landscape:

The format is in following order:

• Action
• Completed by date

Here is the list:

• Remove chespale fencing at entrance barrier.
• End of April ‘07

• Replant railway fenced area with laurel and dogwood shrubs to provide additional cover
• Oct / Nov ‘07

• Prepare and apply fertilizer to grasscrete areas throughout Slateford Green.
• May

• Maintain and replant Community Centre planted areas.
• May

• Beech hedging - Remedy by infilling where appropriate with Escallonia and transplanting beech hedging to provide uniformity of appearance
• Spring planting followed by autumn replanting

• Remove chespale fencing from front gardens at 4,5,6 & 7.
• May ‘07

• Grasscrete opposite stairs 8 – 9 apply top soil and reseed.
• May
  

• Wooded area adjacent to allotments. Apply top soil, grass seed .
• May

• Banked are adjacent to pump chamber – remove upper chespale fencing – plant area with dogwood & laurel
• May

• Stairs 13 -16 remove chespale fencing on road side
• June

• Develop plan or improvement of visitors parking spaces.
• July

Internal

• Ensure hedging is trimmed to fence height throughout internal garden area
• May

• Island bed – remove jaggy shrubs and replace with specimen tree
• July