Ground Control Awarded BALI’s Highest
Accolade For The Children’s Garden At Kew
BALI Registered Contractor Ground Control
has been awarded the British Association
of Landscape Industries’ (BALI) prestigious
Grand Award at the 43rd BALI National
Landscape Awards 2019, sponsored by BALI
Registered Affiliate and Headline Sponsor
of the Awards Green-tech. Ground Control’s
project, The Children’s Garden, Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew was entered into
the Community and Schools Development
category.
The annual BALI National Landscape
Awards, held at the iconic JW Marriott
Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London
celebrates the skills, hard work, quality,
commitment and successes of BALI
Registered members and are the largest
landscape Awards in Europe. They recognise
excellence in landscape design, construction
and maintenance both in the UK and
overseas, as well as awarding Affiliate
customer service and employer excellence.
Ground Control, a UK-based multi award-
winning grounds maintenance provider
40 - www.refurbandrestore.co.uk
specialising in winter maintenance, took
home the top Award for The Children’s
Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens, the
first significant development within the
Kew Gardens estate for over a decade.
Ground Control developed the initial design
concept, engaged with Kew’s visitors,
local community groups and larger public
organisations before transforming a large
under-used area into a unique play and
learning space. Children of all ages can now
enjoy a beautiful adventure space unaware
they are learning about nature, plants and
the environment. carefully sited rockery boulders, and a
skillfully laid plethora of different surfacing
including artificial grass, composite
boarding, gravel pathways and safety
surfacing. Every aspect, without exception,
has been tackled with skill, precision
and exemplary attention to detail. The
planting scheme softens and enhances the
hard elements and, despite the garden’s
popularity and consequent heavy use,
seems to thrive in spite of the attention
of many small hands and feet. This is
landscaping at its very best and a worthy
winner of this year’s BALI Grand Award.”
This year’s BALI National Landscape
Awards’ Adjudicators, led by Chair of the
Adjudication Panel John Melmoe, jointly
commented, “The quality of the finish on
this hard and soft landscaping scheme
is absolutely superb. The contractor
has embraced the design and created
an amazing play and learning space for
children, complete with a beautifully
constructed oak tree circle walkway,
meticulously installed play equipment, 145 entries were judged by BALI
adjudicators over the summer with 91
National Landscape Awards bestowed on 63
members of the Association in September,
with 23 Principal, 8 Special and the coveted
Grand Award announced live on stage at the
glittering ceremony.
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