TABLE 3.1
Service Delivery Output Element | Core Sessions | Adjustment Type | Moratoria | Monitoring Frequency | ||||
3.1.1 | [Landscape Management Strategy] | The Service Provider shall prepare and submit to the Authority the Annual Landscape Action Plan as part of the Annual Investment Programme in accordance with clause [ ] of this Contract. | N/A | 7 days | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.1.2 | [Landscape Management Strategy] | The Service Provider shall prepare and update and submit to the Authority the [Five Year Landscape Management Strategy] in accordance with clauses [ ] of this Contract. | N/A | 7 days | deemed Unavailability | 3 months | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.2.1 | Grass Cutting | The Service Provider shall ensure that general core standard grass in each general core standard grassed area is maintained so that such general core standard grass in each general core standard grassed area is not more than 35 mm but not less than 20 mm in height. | 14 days | 1 day | deemed Unavailability | 14 days | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.2.2 | Grass Cutting | The Service Provider shall ensure that general core standard grass in each general core standard grassed area is cut on a named day only at regular intervals set out in each relevant agreed Annual Investment Programme | 14 days | 1 day | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.2.3 | Grass Cutting | The Service Provider shall ensure any herbage (B) standard grass in each herbage (B) standard grassed area is maintained and/or replaced so that such herbage (B) standard grass in each herbage (B) standard grassed area not more than 150 mm but not less than 75 mm in height. | deemed Unavailability | 14 days | Service Inspect | Annually | ||
3.2.4 | Grass Cutting | Naturalised bulb areas within grassed areas are to be left uncut after the completion of flowering until such time as the flowering foliage has died back within the bulb and such naturalised bulb areas are then cut and cleared and maintained in accordance with paragraphs [ ] (as applicable) until the emergence of growth from bulbs in the following spring. | N/A | N/A | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.2.5 | Grass Cutting | Where, in each general core standard grassed area, herbage (A) standard grassed areas and herbage (B) standard grassed areas (as the case may be) grass abuts a horticultural feature or a hard surface a defined edge is maintained by the Service Provider. | deemed Unavailability | 1 year | Service Inspect | Annually | ||
3.3.1 | Protected Species | If the Service Provider identifies or becomes aware of the existence within the Project Network of any species or habitats which are protected by Legislation, it shall immediately notify [English Nature] and the Authority. | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually | ||
3.3.2 | Protected Species | If the Service Provider identifies or becomes aware of the existence within the Project Network of any species or habitats which are protected by Legislation, it shall provide [English Nature] and the Authority with any further information relating to such species or habitats as may be requested. | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually | ||
3.3.3 | Protected Species | If the Service Provider identifies or becomes aware of the existence within the Project Network of any species or habitats which are protected by Legislation, it shall as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter consult and comply with the requirements of [English Nature] in relation to such species or habitats. | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually | ||
3.4.1 | Inflammable Plants and Materials | The Service Provider shall provide the Horticultural Maintenance Service so as to minimise the risk of fire arising from dry Vegetation during prolonged dry spells. | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually | ||
3.4.2 | Inflammable Plants and Materials | The Service Provider shall not light fires on the Project Network. | N/A | N/A | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.5 | Chemical Herbicides and Pesticides | The Service Provider shall only use those herbicides and pesticides in the performance of the Horticultural Maintenance Service that have been agreed with the Authority in the Annual Investment Programme. | N/A | N/A | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.6.1 | Hedges | The Service Provider shall ensure that hedges on the Project Network do not cause a danger, nuisance or obstruction | 1 day | 1 day | deemed Unavailability | 3 months | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.6.2 | Hedges | The Service Provider shall ensure that there is no decrease to the existing lengths of hedges in the Project Network as at the date of this Contract unless prior written consent has been obtained from the Authority. | 1 year | 1 month | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.6.3 | Hedges | The Service Provider shall ensure that hedge bases in the urban areas of shall be maintained in a weed free condition. | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually | ||
3.6.4 | Hedges | The Service Provider shall ensure that all other hedge bases shall have no more than 10% weed coverage or any weeds that are taller than 50mm. | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually | ||
3.6.5 | Hedges | The Service Provider shall ensure that all hedges shall be trimmed to maintain shape in accordance with good horticultural practice according to relevant species of hedge. | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually | ||
3.6.6 | Hedges | Unless set out otherwise in the agreed Annual Investment Programme, the Service Provider shall maintain all hedges at a maximum height of 1.8 metres and a maximum width of 1 metre. | deemed Unavailability | Next planting season | Service Inspect | Annually | ||
3.6.7 | Hedges | Any dead hedging plants shall be removed by the Service Provider and any gaps shall be planted with the same species to match within the then current growing season or the next available planting season (as appropriate). | 2 months or next planting season | 2 months | deemed Unavailability | 3 months | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.6.8 | Hedges | The Service Provider shall carry out hedge cutting on each hedge within the Project Network in a manner which shall not disturb nesting birds and other wildlife. | N/A | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually | |
3.7.1 | Shrubs and Roses | The Service Provider shall ensure that there is no decrease in the existing shrub areas and rose areas in the Project Network as at the date of this Contract unless prior written consent has been obtained from the Authority. | 1 month | 1 month | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.7.2 | Shrubs and Roses | shrub areas and rose areas in the Project Network shall be maintained substantially free from weed growth and have a formal trimmed edge where they abut grass and in any event no shrub area or rose area in the Project Network shall have more than 10% weed coverage or weeds that are taller than 50mm. | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually | ||
3.7.3 | Shrubs and Roses | The Service Provider shall prune shrubs and roses in the Project Network in accordance with good horticultural practice given the age, genus, species, required form and flowering period of those shrubs and roses and such pruning shall also maintain the characteristic natural shape of the relevant shrub or rose. | 1 month | 1 month | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.7.4 | Shrubs and Roses | The Service Provider shall carry out shrub and rose cutting and pruning on each flower bed in a manner which shall not disturb nesting birds and other wildlife. | N/A | N./A | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.7.5 | Shrubs and Roses | The Service Provider shall remove any dead shrubs and roses and any gaps within a shrub or rose bed shall be planted with the same species to match within the current growing season or the next available planting season (as appropriate). | 2 months or next planting season | 2 months | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.8.1 | Boxers and Planters | The Service Provider shall be responsible for the structural maintenance of boxes and planters on the Project Network so that all boxes and planters shall be Structurally Sound and for the avoidance of doubt where moveable concrete boxes and planters are beyond reasonable repair then such boxes and planters shall be removed from the Project network and not replaced. | 1 month | 1 month | deemed Unavailability | 1 month | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.8.2 | Boxers and Planters | The Service Provider shall remove litter from boxes and planters on the Project Network in order to maintain each box and planter in a clean and tidy condition. | 1 month | 1 month | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Service Inspect | Annually |
3.9.1 | Green Waste | Subject to paragraph target 3.9.2, the Service Provider shall dispose of all green waste generated in the performance of the Horticultural Maintenance Service | 1 day | 1 day | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Inspect | Monthly |
3.9.2 | Green Waste | The Service Provider shall not permit any such waste to be taken for landfill or thermal treatment unless otherwise agreed with an Authority | N/A | N/A | deemed Unavailability | N/A | Inspect | Monthly |