Landscaping and site presentation are vital to making a great first impression for potential home buyers looking at Developer or housebuilder sites. Garden landscaping, pathway installation, and kerb maintenance are great ways to give your housing developments and public open spaces the edge over competitors.
PlaySmart has over 20 years of experience in housebuilder landscaping. Our team’s expertise covers: design, installation, presentation, and maintenance. Therefore, we understand the unique challenges that face housing developments, including how the aesthetics of your show garden and maintenance of landscaped areas influence potential buyers.
Why is show garden maintenance and sales area presentation so important?
Our housebuilder clients often say how important environmental impact design is for their show gardens and sales area presentations. The outdoor area is the first and last impression your potential buyer gets. So why not keep it looking at its best?
General priorities for landscaping presentation in housing developments emphasise the value of substantial evergreen planting and specimens, clean, sharp edges to kerbs and pathways, grass management, weed control, and sustainable surfacing solutions. The installation and management of these key aspects make a big difference in how buyers perceive the property, impacting their chances of buying.
PlaySmart’s Garden Landscaping and Ground Maintenance Services Include:
- Environmentally friendly and sustainable surfacing solutions
- Bespoke, high end show garden maintenance
- Show garden landscape design & installation
- Sticking plot uplifts
Housebuilder Favourite Surfacing Solutions
We offer bespoke solutions to suit any budget by working with designers who specialise in Housebuilder sites and property development. While we provide a wide range of surfacing products and materials, two options stand out as favourites for the housebuilding sector.
Hybrid Grass
Neat, green grass lawns with sharp curbs make your gardens and public open spaces look professional and appealing to buyers. Hybrid Grass helps make the maintenance of these surfaces easier and looks great all year round. This surface incorporates artificial fibres into natural grass to encourage growth, stabilise soil, and provide consistent green surfaces.
This makes it a great alternative to artificial grass that housebuilders often choose as a very low maintenance solution. Hybrid grass needs to be mowed and watered very occasionally, but has the benefits of looking and feeling more natural that the most high-quality of artificial solutions while maintaining an accessible price point.
Grass control is made simple with professional installation. We install hybrid grass in long grass rolls which can create neat lines for larger lawns or natural green for garden turf.
Corkeen
Hard landscaping is also important for public open spaces in housebuilder developments. Providing accessibility and avoiding damage to more vulnerable surfaces is important for the landscape maintenance of POS Areas.
Corkeen is a carbon-negative hard surface that uses 90% cork materials for a unique colour and texture perfect for hard-standing areas and pathways. Unlike typical stone or tarmac pathways, Corkeen adds to the overall site presentation by introducing vibrant yellow colours to contrast green grass while still utilising natural, sustainable materials highly valued by developers and buyers alike.
The cork surface is naturally mould-resistant, water-permeable, and hypo-allergenic. Therefore, Corkeen provides an all-round solution for a durable garden landscape.
Show-Garden Maintenance
We provide developers with high end garden maintenance focused on ensuring sales centres always look at their best. This ensures the first-impression, or ‘Kerb Appeal’ for show properties.
To maintain proper landscaping standards, our POS Area and garden maintenance services include:
- Cut & collect grass management
- Hedge and shrub maintenance
- Lawn care/weed control
- Site presentation
- Plant and loose fill replenishment
Show Home Landscape Design & Installation
Early development for housebuilders and landscape architects must consider the outdoor areas in their planning. Without a carefully designed outdoor area that demonstrates the important values of ease of accessibility, sustainable, durable materials, and aesthetically pleasing design, potential buyers may be dissuaded from buying.
Therefore, PlaySmart provides housebuilders with:
- Planting, turfing and hard landscaping
- Sustainable and eco-friendly surfacing solutions
- Seasonal planting and customer interaction
- Bespoke solutions to suit any budget
Choose PlaySmart for your Garden Landscaping
In our experience with housebuilders, our clients have been thrilled with how our surfaces and maintenance services have been able to improve the aesthetics of developments.
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