Haydon Bridge plants nursery wins top order
Oct 28 2008 The Journal
A NURSERY in Northumberland has beaten competition from across the UK to win a tender to supply 56,000 plants for use on the new Haydon Bridge bypass project.
Trees Please will now supply trees, and hedging to the £24.7m project, which are being grown at its 90-acre plantation between Hexham and Corbridge. The plants will begin to be lifted from the ground towards the end of November with planting, which will be carried out by scheme contractors Lowther Forestry, scheduled to begin soon.
Work on the Haydon Bridge bypass, which will be a 2.9km stretch of road taking the busy A69 around the Northumberland village, began in January 2007 and is due to be completed by spring next year.
The Trees Please plants will be used as part of the landscaping work to screen the new road from the surrounding community, and to help minimise the impact of noise from the traffic using it. Established for over 20 years, Trees Please supplies around 2.5 million trees to commercial customers across the UK every year, grown within its own nursery.
Projects, which are predominantly based in the north of England and Scotland, range from large-scale public sector, forestry and woodland schemes to country estates, farms, gardens and private landscaping work.
Trees Please operations manager Ed Holmes says: “This is one of the highest-profile ongoing projects in our sector, so as a local company it is extremely pleasing for us to be able to win this tender and help make a lasting mark on the county’s landscape.”
Mr Holmes said that the combination of competitive pricing and the quality of products that the nursery grew and supplied had enabled them to beat off competition from other suppliers.
