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Green-Tree supports major rooftop development

August 21, 2026/in News, Press Release/by Admin

Green-Tree supports major rooftop development Lumina Village is a major Build-to-Rent regeneration development in Trafford, Manchester, forming part of a wider 120-acre civic quarter regeneration masterplan, delivering approximately 4,000 homes alongside commercial space, infrastructure, and an enhanced public realm. The Podium phase is a key part of this regeneration and comprises a 440-home Build-to-Rent development, […]

A response to Suella Braverman

August 21, 2026/in News, Press Release/by Admin

A response to Suella Braverman Those of us with any interests in politics in recent years have learned that whenever Suella Braverman speaks the best course of action is to turn a deaf ear. Her own political career has been particularly chequered with ministerial demotions, sackings, failed leadership bids and a defection to another party […]

Green-Tree supports major rooftop development

August 21, 2026/in News, Press Release/by Admin

A response to Suella Braverman

August 21, 2026/in News, Press Release/by Admin

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Green-Tree supports major rooftop development

August 21, 2026/in News, Press Release/by Admin

Green-Tree supports major rooftop development

Lumina Village is a major Build-to-Rent regeneration development in Trafford, Manchester, forming part of a wider 120-acre civic quarter regeneration masterplan, delivering approximately 4,000 homes alongside commercial space, infrastructure, and an enhanced public realm.

Green-Tree supports major rooftop development

The Podium phase is a key part of this regeneration and comprises a 440-home Build-to-Rent development, including apartments and townhouses, with extensive podium landscaping, a half-acre rooftop garden for residents, and 5.4 acres of public realm.

ORIGIN GREEN-TECH INVOLVEMENT AND PRODUCTS SUPPLIED

Origin Green-tech supported Wright Landscapes with the supply of 350m³ of Green-tree Intensive Roof Garden substrate for the podium and roof level landscape construction.

The roof and podium structures required a specialist growing medium that would meet strict technical criteria, including:

Reduced load to comply with structural loading limits
Consistent drainage performance for roof build-ups
Long-term plant health and rooting stability
Suitability for intensive and semi-intensive roof planting systems
Compliance with the approved landscape specification and design intent

Wright Landscapes appointed their own independent soil scientist to test and verify the suitability of the Green-tree Intensive Roof Garden substrate supplied for the project. The material was assessed and confirmed to be suitable for intensive roof garden applications, meeting the requirements of the project specification.

This verification process included assessment of the substrate composition against the project specification, focusing on particle structure, organic matter content and overall stability. Drainage and water-retention characteristics were evaluated to ensure performance under roof-garden conditions and to confirm suitability for the proposed planting palette and establishment strategy. Following this process, technical approval was provided prior to supply and installation.

Origin Green-tech supplied a specialist lightweight, intensive roof garden substrate designed for high-level landscape applications where weight-loading constraints, drainage performance, and long-term plant establishment are critical. The material was delivered in dumpy bags and craned directly into position at the podium and roof garden level, in line with site constraints and installation sequencing requirements.

IMPACT AND OUTCOME

The completed roof and podium landscapes at Lumina Village now provide high-quality external amenity space for residents, enhancing biodiversity, visual amenity and the usability of outdoor environments within the development.

The collaboration ensured a specification-compliant, intensive roof-substrate solution, efficient installation at height with controlled logistics, and the successful establishment of conditions for rooftop planting systems.

Joe Jeavons, Group Marketing Manager for Domis Construction, comments, “Completing Lumina Village is a significant achievement for everyone involved in delivering the scheme. As one of Trafford’s most ambitious developments, we are proud to have delivered this project alongside Glenbrook Property and to see it now forming a lasting part of Trafford’s regeneration.

The commitment shown throughout has been exceptional, and the collaboration, technical expertise and reliable supply chain support have all played an important role in the successful delivery of the podium and roof landscape elements.”

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A response to Suella Braverman

August 21, 2026/in News, Press Release/by Admin

A response to Suella Braverman

Those of us with any interests in politics in recent years have learned that whenever Suella Braverman speaks the best course of action is to turn a deaf ear.

A response to Suella Braverman

Her own political career has been particularly chequered with ministerial demotions, sackings, failed leadership bids and a defection to another party altogether.

However, this week she has regurgitated the hackneyed old line about “Mickey Mouse” degree courses and cited Golf Course Studies as one of the main culprits.

On this occasion we can’t simply ignore her and allow her views to gain traction, particularly given the difficulties in attracted young people into not just the golf course management industry, but turf and grounds management as a whole.

She told The Sun: “In terms of Mickey Mouse courses, listen, this has been well chronicled for many years. Whether it’s Gender Studies, whether it’s Golf Course Studies I think I’ve seen, there’s not a necessity, there’s not a value in many of these degrees.

“Now I know that might be uncomfortable for those people who have those qualifications, But the reality is, you’ve got to ask yourself, what are the graduate outcomes you have in mind?”

Well Suella, I’d suggest that someone who has applied for, and successfully completed, a degree in Golf Course Studies is aiming for a job working on a golf course.

The curriculum for Golf Course Studies covers a huge range of topics including turf grass science, agronomy, sustainable water management, disease identification and land resource planning and it produces well rounded employment-ready young people.

It is, don’t forget, a vocational degree and those who sign up for it know what they want to be doing with the rest of their working lives.

They won’t be graduates who are going to be asking “Do you want fries with that?” for the first few years after they’ve left university.

For too long Golf Course Studies has been a punchbag for politicians, usually, and in this case definitely, without a clue.

I would suggest that they turn their focus onto many of the non-vocational courses which, while perhaps stretching students’ brainpower, don’t offer a direct path to the workplace.

It is good that the GMA have the same view and CEO Geoff Webb is, as ever strident in his condemnation

“The GMA firmly condemns these comments. To single out golf course management as a degree lacking value fundamentally misunderstands both the qualification and the industry it serves,” said Geoff.

“Specialist land‑based degrees – such as golf course management and sports turf management – are academically robust and essential to sectors facing acute skills shortages. Graduates enter a sector with strong employment rates and clear career pathways into some of the most iconic sporting venues in the world, from St Andrews to Headingley.

“These are science-driven, technically demanding programmes. Our professionals maintain the surfaces that make sport possible at every level – from community pitches to Premier League stadiums. Without them, sport simply does not happen.

“We strongly support apprenticeships as a vital route into the profession, but university degrees are equally essential, and the two are not in competition. What the sector needs is more people entering through all available pathways, not rhetoric that deters them.”

Well said Geoff.

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Green-Tree supports major rooftop development

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