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Services
Grounds maintenance, tree work, vegetation clearance and utility and infrastructure work for estates and portfolios across the North West and Cumbria. Our own crews, based near Preston, and a completion record for every visit that the office shares with you.
Get a quote Grounds maintenance contracts
Arboricultural Association Approved Contractor. Appointed to the Fusion21 Grounds Maintenance Framework, 2026 to 2030. 24/7 emergency response.
Looking for one service? The full service directory is below, or go straight to tree surveys, LOLER inspections or frameworks and procurement.
Pick the page written for your site and it will tell you what a visit looks like, what you receive afterwards and how to buy.
Communal grounds and estate trees kept to a published schedule, with a record of every visit for the housing officer.
Housing association grounds maintenanceGrounds, boundary hedges and trees maintained around the school day, with tree risk assessed rather than assumed.
School grounds maintenanceBusiness parks, retail and industrial sites kept presentable all year, with one contractor for the grounds and the trees.
Commercial property grounds maintenanceAppointed to the Fusion21 Grounds Maintenance Framework. Lancashire County Council and Fylde Borough Council are among the public bodies we work for.
Frameworks and procurementNational contractors
National contractors place grounds and tree work with us in the North West. If you manage a regional contract and need a subcontractor with its own crews and its own visit records, ask for the Capability Pack.
Service directory
Seven groups. Every line links to the page that explains that service, the standards it works to and how it is recorded. Start with the group that matches your estate.
Scheduled grounds care for one site or a whole portfolio, delivered by our own crews across the North West and Cumbria.
Every visit is signed off on site with photographs, and the completion record reaches you from the office.
Tree work to BS3998 from an Arboricultural Association Approved Contractor, with TPO and conservation area consents checked before anyone climbs.
From a single dangerous tree to a managed tree stock across an estate.
Plots, access routes and overgrown land cleared under a written RAMS, with waste removed under licence.
For groundworks, utilities and estates that need a site ready by a date.
Arboriculture and vegetation management around live assets for utility network operators, highways, rail, water and telecoms.
Timed around permits, traffic management and shifts, with the records the asset owner needs.
Habitat work that can be built, maintained and evidenced, from a Biodiversity Net Gain baseline through to aftercare and monitoring.
The evidence is written for the planner or funder who has to sign it off.
Knotweed, balsam and other invasive weeds surveyed, treated and managed with compliant methods.
Biosecurity and a written report on every job, so the position is on record.
Written advice and inspection records that stand up in front of a planner, an insurer or an auditor.
Surveys to BS5837, tree risk assessments and LOLER examinations of lifting equipment.
If the work you need sits across two or three of these groups, that is the point. One contractor, one crew on site, one record of every visit. Ask for a quote and describe the estate, not the service.
On site
Grounds and tree work on client sites in the North West, carried out by our own crews with our own machinery. That is what one contractor for the estate means on site.
How the work is evidenced
A monthly grounds visit and a one-off tree removal run on the same route from booking to invoice. Nothing depends on someone remembering to write it up.
The site, the work and the crew go on the schedule.
When the work is done, the crew signs the visit off on site with photographs.
The completion record, with the photographs, reaches the office.
You receive the completion record for the visit, so you can see what was done without going to site.
What you are billed for is what was signed off. There is no second version.
That record is what you hand to an auditor, a resident, a landlord or a framework manager when they ask what was done and when.
Talk to us about your sitesWhat you can check
These are the things a procurement or estates officer can verify. Each one is either on a public register or can be evidenced on request.
Both awards are on the public record. National contractors place grounds and tree work with us in the North West. Those relationships are set out in the Capability Pack, available from the procurement page.
Testimonials from clients are on the testimonials page.
Based near Preston, working across the North West and Cumbria with our own crews. The locations pages list the towns and the work we do in each.
Storm damage, a failed tree on a road, a building or a live site: we respond around the clock. This is for emergencies only. Routine and planned work is scheduled in the normal way, in working hours.
Our crews are assessed at our own City and Guilds approved assessment centre, centre number 075022.
Councils and public bodies
Great Oaks is appointed to the Fusion21 Grounds Maintenance Framework, 2026 to 2030. If your organisation buys through Fusion21, the compliance stage is already done and a call-off can start from your specification.
If you run your own tender or quotation exercise, the procurement page sets out how we answer it. It covers the questions procurement teams ask us and the Capability Pack we send in response.
Lancashire County Council and Fylde Borough Council are among the public bodies we work for. Both are on the public record.
Next step
A site address and a description of the work is enough to start. If you have a specification, a schedule of rates or a site plan, send that too and the quote is written against it.
A package can be written within days and a crew cut in within a week, where the site allows it.
Office line, working hours. For a dangerous tree outside those hours go to emergency tree removal.
Careers
Climbing, grounds maintenance and utility work.Climbing, grounds and utility work.
Arboricultural Association Approved Contractor.
Last minuteAvailability
Starts Monday 19 October 2026
3 days plus 1 for assessment
£9671 place
Entry requirements: Ground Based Chainsaw Operator and Tree Climbing and Aerial Rescue
Book this date, Using a Chainsaw from a Rope and HarnessOr call the training office on 01772 369694
