Icewell Hill

Icewell Hill was an area of deprivation in Newmarket which was neglected and beset with problems involving anti-social behaviour. Flagship Housing commissioned a lighting designer to change the lighting around the estate and tasked us with redesigning and planting the huge, raised beds there. Raoul, our senior gardener, did all the designing of the beds, sourced the plants and oversaw the planting. The estate was transformed and, anecdotally, the social issues have improved considerably. Where the estate was covered in litter, it is now tidy and well cared for.

Icewell Hill before

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Icewell Hill afterwards

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Icewell Hill afterwards

Tree and hedge planting

We have carried out a large amount of tree and hedge planting for a local estate over 2023 and 2024. We have planted about 450 trees and several miles of hedgerow. We have also cleared several miles of woodland from ivy, which was smothering a lot of the trees.

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Natasha

One of our customers, Natasha, had suffered some health difficulties which meant that she had not been in a position to look after her garden for some while. She knew what she wanted and designed the all the changes herself, then THIS carried out the work. The results were spectacular. Our team moved 30 tonnes of stone and put in 100 plus metres of edging, plus reshaped all her plants.

Natasha’s garden before

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Natasha’s garden after

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“You are an amazing group and have made such a difference in Thetford, well done to you all.”
Suzanne
Works for a local college
“Your help this year has made a huge difference. It’s given me one less thing to worry about & I can enjoy our garden again instead of always finding it a chore to stay on top of it. Thank you to all the team. You’re amazing.”
Suzanne
Social Garden customer who became a regular customer
Congratulations to you all. I know several people who’ve benefitted from being able to have their gardens at home done by your fabulous team.
And we’d recommend you to any business, the work you’ve done for us has been fantastic, with real attention to detail and such lovely people doing it.”
Sue
Commercial Customer
In February, 2024, THIS was very proud to have been awarded a Thetford Award Recognising Achievement – or TARA for short.  We won the business award, which was a great honour.

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