Welcome to WAP Lawton & Son Ltd
commercial landscaping
About Us
WAP Lawton & Son is one of the leading landscape contractors in the north west.
Established in 1962, our highly skilled employees provide a high-quality landscaping service, working on commercial, industrial and local authority landscape projects, as well as prestigious private developments.
All employees hold relevant industry certificates, with machine operatives also holding a Construction Plant Competence Scheme operator card, enabling them to operate our range of plant and equipment, which we maintain on our premises.
Equally, our management team is trained to incorporate and implement all relevant health and safety regulations and site requirements in accordance with the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.
WAP Lawton & Son is:
• a member of The British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI)
and is accredited/registered with the following organisations:
• Constructionline, the UK’s largest online register for pre-qualified contractors and consultants
• CHAS, the UK’s leading provider of compliance and risk management solutions
• SafeContractor, SMAS (Safety Management Advisory Services), and Acclaim, recognising the company’s health and safety capabilities, and
• Avetta Network, the world’s leading provider of supply chain risk management solutions.
Accreditation with the above also provides Safety Schemes in Procurement accreditation, the mutual recognition scheme for occupational health and safety standards within construction.
Our Clients
Anwyl Construction
Cheshire East
Cheshire East Highways
Cheshire West and Chester Council
Environment Agency
Halton Borough Council
Homes England
Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Manchester City Council
Mersey Forest
Morris Homes
Redrow Homes
St Helens Borough Council
The Environment Partnership (TEP)
The Land Trust
United Utilities
Warrington Borough Council
Wigan Council
projects
Primary School Maintenance
landscape reinstatement
landscape developments
landscape maintenance
landscape developments schools & nurseries
Oldfield Primary School, Chester
At Oldfield Primary School, we provide landscape maintenance services to the sports field, surrounding grass areas, hedge cutting, weed control and line marking, we also carry out scheduled maintenance to areas of long grass, which remain as a haven for local wildlife, and wildflowers. We can if required provide hard surfacing repairs and also any remedial repairs to external areas around the school.
Cherry Grove Primary School, Chester
At Cherry Grove Primary School, we provide landscape maintenance services to the sports field, surrounding grass areas, hedge cutting, weed control and line marking, We can if required provide hard surfacing repairs and also any remedial repairs to external areas around the school.
Henley Court, Runcorn
United Utilities carried out works to a nearby chamber, we were awarded works to reinstate the front garden. Works consisted of removal of existing lawn and replacing with new, removal of Ivy from wall, everedge edging to create the shapes highlighted on the design, planting of mixed shrubs and perennial plants, installation of raised planters and planting of these with some standard feature plants and underplanted with various herbs, installation of timber bollards and chains, and finally installation of resin bound surfacing.
Jubilee Park, Grappenhall
Following on from a report of a damaged wetpour and post for a trim trail unit we attended site to reinstate the trim trail with a new post, the post was play grade specification, and had to be custom built to take the existing balance beams. The wetpour was cut and the repair carried out using a wetpour repair kit
Riverside Park, Macclesfield
Works consisted of scraping off of soil/grass, installation of edging boards to retain topping material in highlighted places, installation of retaining wall (timber Sleeper), Installation of stone wall up to bridges, and surfacing footpaths with Hopath material.
King Canute Garden Feature
The King Canute sculpture was featured in a Silver Medal winning show garden at RHS Tatton in the time and tide garden built for Cheshire Garden’s Trust. The Sculpture was designed and built by The Locker Group and Christine Wilcox Baker. The sculpture was then moved to the offices of Knutsford Town Council. Planting was incorporated into the scheme, this was mulched with pea gravel and crushed shells used to highlight the feature
Hall Street Green, Cheadle
Existing footpaths were removed and made good with soil and seeded. New footpaths were then constructed, new IAE fencing was installed and old removed, Broxap bin and benches were also installed with edge detail. Planting area developments ready for bog garden plants and general seeding upon completion of the works. The works were awarded by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.
Wigan Flood Alleviation Scheme
Works involved, importation of compost to PAS100 standards, planting of bare root trees and whips, re profiling of pond edges, installation of Bat Boxes and Kingfisher tunnels, construction of Otter Holts, installation of drainage channels, and plug planting. The project was awarded by the Environment Agency and project managed by Axis P.E.D.
Gadbrook Park, Northwich
Landscape works carried out to the underpass between Rudheath and Gadbrook business park. Works consisted of stripping turf and incorporating soil improver, planting of shrubs, trees and bulbs. Other works carried out to the estate included pond improvements. The existing pond was stripped removing established shrubs from edges and also accumulated debris, bentonite was then laid 300mm below the finished soil level, and then filled with the excavated material, with the surrounding edges being raked and seeded.
Kingsmead, Northwich Landscape Maintenance
We have maintained Kingsmead located in Northwich for 12 years. The site is a large housing estate of some 1600 homes with communal landscape areas including parks, footpaths, fencing and gates. Open spaces are fully accessible to the public at all times so specific mowing programmes have been decided upon prior to works. With our 12 years working on this particular site we have gained much experience of Kingsmead making our service more valuable as the site is maintained by our regular maintenance teams who know the routes and are familiar faces around the estate.
Birchwood Boulevard, Warrington Landscape Maintenance
We have successfully maintained Birchwood Boulevard for 10 years. The works include maintenance of lawn areas around the office buildings and roads, pruning and hedge cutting, weed control, restock planting beds, and inspection of the green space and infrastructure within the estate.
Japanese Knotweed Treatment, Northern England
W A P Lawton Currently carry out Japanese Knotweed treatment to various sites in the North of England for the Homes and Communities Agency, managed by TEP. Areas vary in size and also type of location. W A P Lawton are fully aware of the constraints when working near to water courses and areas of a sensitive nature. As well as the Homes and Communities Agency and TEP, we carry out Japanese Knotweed treatments for the Environment Agency and also various Landscape Architects.
W A P Lawton also deal with other invasive species of weed, namely Hogweed and Himalayan Balsam. Depending on situations we can treat an area with knapsack sprayers or stem injectors, or where required excavation of root systems with mini excavators and dumpers to which we have trained and certified operators to drive up to 10 ton machines tracked and wheeled.
Oakfield High School, Wigan
Oakfield High School located in Wigan, required a re vamp of a raised planter, we visited the school with some ideas of what could be installed to improve the main entrance to the school. The area to be re developed was measured and a brief drafted out with the site manager and head teacher, which highlighted the requirements and their wish list for the area.
Three designs were drafted out, one was picked and put forward for pricing.
We were successful with our quotation and started work on the area. The design consisted of areas of evergreen specimen shrubs, and sensory planting, these were defined by a Buxus hedge. A milled slate outcrop stone was then installed onto a water trough, with a dry river bed (blue and plum slate) running from the base of the larger stone. As you progress down the river bed to the split this detail relates to the school Oak tree logo. Sensory mulch was then spread around the new planting to aid in establishment and also keep the weeds down. Finally electricity was installed to the feature area providing power to the water pump and also power to the up lighters, which were positioned around the milled outcrop stone and also down the river bed.
Cherry Grove Primary School, Chester
The brief for this particular project was to improve the grounds of the school by clearing overgrown areas that were fenced off, allowing a larger more accessable area for the children to play and learn, as well as adding outdoor resources for teachers.
All areas around the sports field were considered within the proposals, with the proposed amphitheatre area needing a design to base our presentation on.
The design included a golden gravel footpath, growing beds, wildflower beds, trees and sensory planting.
Following on from the levelling and development of the areas, the school now has scope to develop further, adding trim trails, seating, growing beds and trees to the surrounding green space around the new feature areas.
Contact Us
Address
Springfield Nursery, Pickmere Lane, Pickmere, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 0JP