Hard Landscape - Specification, Management & Maintenance

How to use the Hard Landscape Guidance

A full and detailed specification for all hard landscape will be required at the detailed design stage that is appropriately drafted with references to the relevant British Standards and the National Building Specification (NBS). This specification will cover all aspects of the material quality, handling, installation technique and product life cycle.

Landscape management

Landscape Management Plans should be produced for each of the development areas setting out the long term objectives for the public realm, identified by typology and location.

Plans should include details of the body that will be responsible for long term management of the public realm assets, and will provide guidance for that body to provide continuity in management to deliver the Ebbsfleet Garden City vision.

Landscape maintenance

An appropriate hard landscape maintenance regime is required to ensure that the public realm meets the high standards required for Ebbsfleet Garden City.

Sustainable landscape maintenance should be considered at an early stage in developing the public realm design and coordinated with the hard landscape maintenance recommendations outlined in Chapter 6.

Details of hard landscape maintenance should be set out for each public realm typology and location, including schedules of operations and programme.

Guidelines for the maintenance of Streets Levels 1-4, Parks and Squares are provided in the following pages.

Hard Landscape maintenance guidelines