Project Gallery

Spring of 2023 saw the start of design and build works at a community Hospital in Warminster.

The garden incorporated an emergency access to the rear of the Longleat Ward. A degraded access road was removed, drainage installed and finished with a decreative resin bound gravel surface on a permeable tarmac sub base. Steel access gates were clad with decorative laser cut alluminum panels. Disabled access planters, raised planters and fence completed the work. 

Another new build playground on the top of the hills, just above Holmfirth.

After constructing a new tarmac access route into council public open space, works started on the demolition of the existing old play area, ground remodelling, the supply and installation of an array of new client specified play equipment and resurfacing. Avenues of cheery and birch trees we provided and planted on several approach routes into the play area.

Another play area refurbishment project for a local Council.

This project was principally an existing refurbishment involving maintenance and repainting of existing equipment, the renewal of surfacing, remodelling of terraced step, the provision of a "play fort" feature, new gates and furniture and "Barney the Badger" a timber carved play feature all formed part of this project. Executed by GCLL.

Another social prescribing project, consisting of newly constructed self-binding gravel footpaths, numerous raised vegetable beds, potting benches, trellis fencing and a secure tool store all formed part of a new patient social inclusion project at a health centre within the Southmead Health Centre in Bristol.

A total of five projects (to date) have now been completed for NHS Property Services within the last couple of years.

It's satisfying to see the patients becoming involved in growing vegetables and flowers and taking ownership of these areas.

A doctors practise in Bristol needed some outdoor shelter for staff and patients. GCLL were contacted to supply and construct a 6m by 3m "chunky" timber gazebo with a shingle apex roof completed with a timber deck floor.

After constructing the foundations we returned to site a couple of weeks later and undertook the insulation.

GCLL has been undertaking social prescribing projects for NHS Property Services, turning redundant grounds space into community involved spaces.

Recently projects have been undertaken at surgery premises in Talke near Stoke and Skelmanthorpe near Huddersfield. A third project at Bristol is programmed for this Summer 2022. Works included the construction of footpaths, raised vegetable beds, hazel screens, specialist surfacing, street furniture and planting. 

A play area, in New Mill, with basketball court constructed in the Autumn of 2021 for the local council.Works involved removal of old dilapidated playground, construction of a new one complete with a separate multi use kickabout / basketball court.

A long rubber mulch surfaced footpath connected the top and bottom ends of the site adjacent to a newly installed trim trail.

Work in progress!

November 2020 saw the start of the construction of a "mile trial" exercise track at a Special Educational Needs College in Whitefield Greater Manchester.

Works entailed minor civil engineering, regrading and an edged tarmac surfaced footpath, which GCLL successfully completed prior to the Christmas Holiday shut down.

2020 saw GCLL replace an existing dilapidated play area and construct a new sport "kick about" pitch in Accrington Lancashire.

The works commenced in March and were soon brought to a halt, firstly by atrocious weather and soon after by the first Covid lockdown!

Not to be deterred works were finally completed by late summer.Work involved new safety surfacing, playground equipment and furniture.

Part of a degraded car park was converted to a sensory garden at a Lancashire Old People's Day Centre.

GCLL cleared the site, installed new paving underneath a covered veranda and erected new boundary fencing and gates.

Other works included the erection of a new potting shed, timber planters, bespoke "leaf" shaped planters, the installation of resin bonded surfacing, artificial grass, steel handrails and ornamental planting.

Story Teller's Area.

In the summer of 2020 GCLL produced a flat area by cutting into a small embankment to create a retained space and installed a story teller's chair with child seating to create an "outdoor classroom" space on the periphery of a children's park in Lancashire.

The area was provided with an innovative surface of rubber, aggregate and polyurethane binder.

During the school summer holiday's GCLL removed an old weed infested heavily traffic lawn turf at a Ashton-under-Lyne primary school.

The area was excavated and prepared for the supply and installation of artificial turf.

The area is now safe and tidy and the young chidren enjoy outdoor play in without getting "caked" in mud!

The design demolition and reconstruction of a toddlers playground at a large primary school in Rochdale. The works consisted of a new tramac "trundle track" complete with "road markings", zebra crossing with belisha beacons, petrol pump,play boat,sand pit, rubber surfacing, terraced seating and a storey tellers chair.

GCLL commenced and completed the works during the school summer holiday break.

GCLL has replaced a dilapidated rotten play equipment with a new toddler timber multi-play unit.

The existing serviceable in-situ wet pour rubber safety surface was able to be retained with contrasting coloured "swirls" created around the foundations of the new equipment.

Rochdale's Quaker Burial Ground - the final resting place of 19th Century statesman and radical reformer John Bright has under gone a major restoration.
The works (undertaken by GCLL) have improved the ancient grounds and restored some of the Victorian features including railings, gates, footpaths and walls lost over decades of redevelopment and demolitions in the area.The 'sensitive' restoration of the  graveyard is in keeping with Quaker traditions.    Extract Rochdale online.

GCLL created an outdoor classroom area which included raised planters,a stage complete with bench seating and picnic tables accessed through an arched pergola with an artifical grass surface. Immediately adjacent to this we built a new timber trail toddlers play area finished with in-situ rubber wet pour impact absorbent surfacing.

GCLL constructed approximately 250 square metres of Ekki hardwood decking, with Chinese Bauxite anti slip inlays at a replacement new build specialist Children's Hospital in Liverpool. 

In addition to this GCLL provided bespoke gabion basket seating, screening to a meter pillar and hardwood entrance gates to the memorial garden.

Guy Crowther Landscapes Limited  constructed a one third of an acre tarmac children's playground and  relocated an existing toddlers playground at a Roman Catholic Primary School in Bury. 

A new "bark chip" effect rubber safety surface, the relocation of fencing and access gates and turfing and planting all formed part of the works.

The area was thermoplastic line marked to form a netball court.

GCLL erected signage together with hard and soft landscape works to a new coach drop off point at the World Famous Bury Market. The works involved the redevelopment of the site of a derelict petrol station with the creation of a grass mound, bound gravel surfacing, timber fencing and the structural concrete foundations, steel frame and sign installation.

These works involved the dismantling and removal of a black poplar within a church yard at a sixteenth century church in Radcliffe Greater Manchester.

On close examination the tree was found to be unsafe to climb due to the large amount of rotten timber within the main stem. A after the initial risk assessment prior to commencement a MEWP  was deployed in lieu of climbing to enable the safe completion of this work.

The construction of a five tier concave amphitheatre sheltered seating and viewing area at a Lancashire Hospice. GCLL stone masons worked with Cumbrian sourced walling stone and sawn ashlar radius edged seating plinths. The centre access steps were constructed with two equally dimensioned steps in each tier.

This job called upon the out of season planting of a four foot tall beech perimeter hedge,semi- mature tree planting and the soiling and turfing of open space areas to  a new Petrol Fueling Station and Grocery Collection Depot at a site near St Helens. GCLL complete these works to a exacting program in time for the scheduled PFS opening.

GCLL has recently completed the supply and erection of over 1600 metres of boundary fencing to five sites belonging to a West Yorkshire based artifical and natural national stone producer.

Whislt the majority of work involved the provison of 1.8 metre high wire and stock fencing to the boundary of deep quarry workings,pallisade and chainlink fencing and steel handrails have also been provide.

GCLL constructed a six metre high screen fence to hide an unsightly waste mound adjacent to a prestigious Lancashire Business Park. A local structural engineer produced a structural interpretation of the design. 1 metre deep foundations were constructed for each post,a steel structure erected and clad with a 6 metre high timber screen fence. GCLL qualified fencing operatives complete with IPAF certificates carried out the work.

Working with ecological consultants GCLL successfully installed over three miles of temporary polythene and permanent herpetosure newt fencing prior to the construction of a Midlands link road.Works included the provision of capture trap buckets and refuges. Five separate compartments were completed on time and handed over to the ecologists to commence Great Crested Newt monitoring and trapping.

 The construction of two hundred and fifty metres of acoustic fencing  surrounded by five hundred metres of rabbit fencing on top of a planted sound attenuation and screen bund to the northern boundary a new warehouse in Warrington.

Works involved the construction of a tarmac car park surrounded by road kerbs, drainage,road widening and layby construction. Five sets of steps, galvanised steel handrails and timber and concrete retaining walls were provided. Ground modelling with grass seeding completed the projet.

Works were completed within three weeks causing minimal disturbance and interuption to the estate's residents.

Flail mowing, grass cutting and vegetation clearance being carried out for a neighbourhood housing organisation on a public open space in Unsworth, Greater Manchester.

The regular grounds maintenance of a new build primary special school in Greater Manchester. Our company's dedicated team of gardeners are responsible for the programmed grounds maintenace of nearly four acres of land which includes a mini sports pitch, play areas, woodland and shrubs areas and extensive grassland. French Chinese and Islamic themed courtyards are included within the grounds.

This scheme involved the clearance of garden areas and the construction of driveways and parking areas on a social housing estate in Whitefield Manchester.

The works also involved the supply and fixing of front boundary fencing and gates.

Works were completed one month ahead of schedule causing minimal disturbance and interruption to the street's residents.

The construction of a new football pitch from derelict land adjacent to a motorway for a Greater Manchester local authority.

This project involved the clearance of existing vegetation, re-profiling of subsoil, the spreading of new topsoil and the provision of an extensive new drainage system. The project was completed with the laying of a "turfmaster big roll" turf surface. 

Tottington Primary School Play Area Works involved the woodland clearance and fencing of wetland pond, installation of a colourful recycled boundary fence with gated access. Large scale excavations,   timber retaining walls, the creation of  a “curvilinear” EPDM surfaced impact absorbent footpath and a semi-circular play space with flagged surfacing and channel drainage.grass seeding to newly constructed play mounds finished off the project.

Work in progress; The supply and installation of 2,500 linear metres of timber post and wire stockproof fence at a new build housing site in Blackpool. Both the straining and intermediate posts were driven with our mechanical excavator mounted post rammer. Work was completed within two weeks immediately prior to the Christmas holiday break.

The construction of a bespoke timber raised planter and the creation of a seating area on top of a concrete retaining wall at one end of a Multi-Use Games Area at Our Lady's Saint John Catholic College in Blackburn Lancashire.

A two hundred metre stretch of 7' high temporary screen fence erected on top of a railway embankment along a proposed Guided Bus Route, providing privacy for the owners of adjacent properties after the completion of tree clearance activities prior to the bulk earthmoving works taking place in the Autumn.

No job too small!

A damaged solid steel "finger post" directional sign post was completely dismantled, the centre post spigots removed and new ones fabricated, replaced, the sign reassembled and re-erected. 

Greenmount Primary School. - Involved the replacement of existing drainage in a delapidated tarmac surfaced courtyard. The area was completely resurfaced with inpact absorbant EPDM rubber safety surface.

Furtherworks included the construction of a sweeping 1.8 metre wide bound gravel surfaced footpath and installation of drainage and soakaways to new footpath. Works were completed within a week, allowing time for the new grass establishment prior to the new school year.

Pond Safety.
During our company's reconstruction and relining of a dilapidated overgrown pond area, the need arose to address the safety of the infants users. Although the area is supervised at all times, it was decided to have a "Diamond Deck" grid placed over the pond at water level. This can be installed either just above or immediately below water level.

Primary School Outdoor Classroom and Toddlers Play Area.

GCLL provided tarmac and bark footpaths, bespoke built timber sandpits, fencing and lawned play space.The area is now usable and ready for further enhancement as and when additional school funds become available.

New replacement bandstand within a Victorian Cheshire Park.

The project involved the creation of new footpaths and bow top fencing, the rebuilding of the stone plinth complete with new pre-cast copings, imprinted concrete surfacing to the underneath of the structure and the provision and erection of the new replacement bandstand.

Reed bed translocation and the creation of 

Sustainable Urban Drainage System.

This project involved extensive tree felling and site clearance, the storage of habitat vegetation. 8,000 tonnes of excavation and geotechnical treatment of arisings, the creation of a designed land form and the re-introduction of reed bed vegetation, fencing and surrounding parkland grass seeding works.