This is for a 2 year period from 1st Jan 2025 to 31st Dec 2026.
A shorter period can be proposed.
Applicant should submit their tender to clerk@winkleighpc.org before
Wednesday 13th November for consideration at the November meeting of the
Parish council.
There is a shed in the Cemetery that can be used for storage of equipment.
Winkleigh Parish Council
Invitation to tender for the Maintenance of the Cemetery in Winkleigh
This is for a 2 year period from 1st Jan 2025 to 31st Dec 2026.
A shorter period can be proposed.
1. All grassed areas within the site, excluding the Bungalow area, are to be cut throughout the season starting from the middle of March to the middle of November and kept to a standard deemed acceptable by regular communication with the Parish Council.
2. The first cut of the season to be picked up and disposed of in the allocated area located to the South of the shed. The further cuts to be left on the ground unless it is considered necessary to be picked up.
3. A shed will be provided for storage equipment and is located to the Southwest of the Bungalow. This shed must remain locked always when not in use.
4. All areas around the kerbed graves and headstones to be strimmed at the time of each cut.
5. Central hedge adjacent to concrete path to be trimmed when necessary and all cuttings to be picked up and put in allocated area.
6. All paths including Cemetery entrance driveway to be swept when necessary and all joints
in the path to be kept free from weed.
7. All the boundary hedgerow to be kept from brambles encroaching and cut once a year around September. The West hedge face is to be trimmed.
8. All shrubs to be allowed to grow naturally and pruned rather than trimmed into round
shapes without growing wild. Shrub bed to be kept weed free, except for any tree suckers which should be removed.
9. The Air Raid shelter is to be allowed to grow naturally with only one cut per year in the autumn, all cuttings to be picked up and disposed of in the allocated area located to the rear
of the shed.
10. The Cemetery signs and gates are to be washed down/cleaned annually.
11. Allowances must be made when quoting for the taking place of funerals which must take priority on the site therefore the contractor must be prepared to wait until the funeral has
taken place should this situation occur.
12. All work should conform to HSE Standards and a current Public Liability insurance of £5 Million must be held by the contractor and a copy given to the Council.
13. Payments will be made by the Parish Council via monthly Standing Order. An annual invoice for our records is required.
14. The ditch that runs alongside the road shall have the excess leaves removed.
15. The areas of pavement between the road and the cemetery shall be cleared twice a year. The pavement area in front of the entrance and Drain in the pavement to the left shall be kept clear through the year.
16. The Parish Council reserves the right to determine what is considered necessary work for the cemetery upkeep in relation with the above items.
Applicant should submit their tender to clerk@winkleighpc.org before Wednesday 13th November for consideration at the November meeting of the Parish council.
There is a shed in the Cemetery that can be used for storage of equipment.
Winkleigh Parish Council
Invitation to Tender for Ground Works in Winkleigh Cemetery
Winkleigh Parish council invites tenders to carry out the following:
- To supply and lay a pipe in the Ditch on the Southside of the cemetery, to carry water from the East border and to discharge into the field to the West.
- The ditch should be back filled with stone and part of the soil in the ‘soil box’
- To remove soil from the ‘soil box’ to build a bank in the North West corner of the cemetery. This would extend the Western bank to the North West corner filling the gap where there has been a gate, in the past. ( We would later plant a hedge along this bank ) The closeness of the bank to the boundary, to be agreed.
- The soil from the soil box to be prioritied to the building of the bank over the backfilling of the ditch.
- This work to be in the summer of 2025. After 1st May.
Please give consideration to the Residents of the bungalow
Tenders to be submitted by Wed 13th November to clerk@winkleighpc.org
Winkleigh Parish council
Winkleigh Parish Council
To Invite tender for occasional maintenance and occasional repairs as requested by the Council.
We are looking for someone to propose an hourly rate at which they would work as self-employed agents. We would aim to have a panel of people. Jobs would be allocated to those that could start and finish first. The Allocation would be removed and reissued if this time frame was not adhered to.
The sort of task would be tidying the village gateway sign areas and overgrown pavements. The maintenance of benches and bus shelters would also be regular works.
Apply to clerk@winkleighpc.org