Managing agents and residential blocks in Oxted

Communal garden maintenance in Oxted

Shared lawns, hedges and parking court beds kept tidy for Oxted residents and managing agents.

Oxted has more flats than people tend to assume. The 2011 census counted 799 in the parish, and many of the town’s old manor houses and mansions have been converted into apartments. Communal garden maintenance in Oxted can mean a modern block’s lawns and parking court, or the grounds of a grand old house now shared by a dozen households.

Communal beds and hedges at local blocks of flats are already part of our regular work. You get a written annual schedule, one fixed price invoiced monthly or quarterly, and an itemised quote that’s easy to put in front of directors or leaseholders.

Communal garden maintenance at a converted house

Grounds laid out for one family and now serving many bring their own problems. Old boundary hedges are often long and tall. Lawns are big, sometimes with mature trees in them. There may be a terrace or clipped yew that residents care about. We build the schedule around what the site has: regular mowing and edging, hedges kept off paths and drives, shrub beds weeded and pruned in winter, and leaf clearance through autumn. Trees in the grounds are for an arborist, and in a conservation area they need six weeks’ notice before any work.

Communal grounds maintenance on dry and wet ground

Most residents judge a communal garden by its lawn. On the sandy greensand in the centre of town, shared grass browns quickly if it’s cut short in summer, so we raise the height from June and the complaints don’t arrive. On clay further south it’s the other way round, and we keep mowers off soft ground rather than leave ruts across the green. Either way, the same team turns up on the agreed day, and residents soon know who’s looking after the place.