Tilbrooks
Landscape
Over the past 10 years the Cambridgeshire skyline has been changing, dramatically.
A new town, Cambourne, has been created and Tilbrooks have been there from the start.
Our works on site have included digging land drainage ditches and swales, installing French drains on sports fields, creating lakes and boundary woodlands and creating & managing wildlife habitats.
We have also installed play areas and maintained these until the parish council was established and
they now manage the play areas.
Tilbrooks still have a full time member of staff at Cambourne who is responsible for littler picking vacant plots, cutting verges in the summer and also cutting the many green way walks that lead to the lakes.
In time Cambourne will boast an 18 hole golf course, a country park and a leisure centre.
The photos above are of one of the lakes created in Cambourne for rain water to drain to,
this relieves pressure from the main sewer system and also creates a natural habitat for
fish, birds and the great crested newt, which has made a home of Cambourne. The lakes
have shallow areas for spawning fish, frogs and toads, and also deeper areas for fish
during the winter.
As Cambourne is a natural flood plane, drainage lakes were essential and now form a large part of the country park, along with woodland and shrub planting and long grassed areas.
The photos above are of the lakes as they look now.
In time there will be mature woodlands around the lakes.
As part of the new town creation, sports fields were created, along
with a Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) which can be used in most weather
conditions. The main installation was carried out by a specialist sub-contractor
but the preperation, ground works and fencing was carried out by Tilbrooks.
Bellow is a brief snap shot of the finished MUGA
