{"id":894080,"date":"2026-04-14T19:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/894080\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:31:16","slug":"council-to-award-15m-grounds-maintenance-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/894080\/","title":{"rendered":"Council to award \u00a315m grounds maintenance contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By Don Mort<\/strong>, local democracy reporter<\/p>\n<p>Public spaces around the city are to be be improved after the council agreed a maintenance contact worth \u00a315m over five years.<\/p>\n<p>Grassed areas, shrubs and hedgerows will be looked after by specialist company <a href=\"https:\/\/krinkelsuk.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Krinkels UK.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leeds City Council proposed to award a contract from January next year following a tendering exercise.<\/p>\n<p>A council report said: \u201cThe work within this contract directly supports the aim to provide communities that are clean and well looked after, promoting a sense of community pride and ownership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpen spaces located at the heart of communities play a key role in promoting a sense of place and belonging, providing opportunities to meet, exercise and share space for informal children\u2019s play and to engage with the local environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report said the contact, set to run from January 2027, would be worth \u00a33.15m each year.<\/p>\n<p>More than \u00a330m could eventually be paid if an option to extend the contact is carried out, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>A council scrutiny board recommended additional conditions after the current contact expires.<\/p>\n<p>They included daily reporting of maintenance activity and more involvement with community volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>The report said: \u201cAutumn leaf collection and removal from selected land areas will be looked at as an optional aspect of the contract during the autmn and winter period of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"645\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2024-10-31-at-19.08.56-645x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164819\"  \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bramleybaths.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.bramleybaths.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Don Mort, local democracy reporter Public spaces around the city are to be be improved after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,214244,393,4884,1860,11743,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-894080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-don-mort","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-leeds-city-council","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116404727948913505","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}