Volunteers help with landscaping works at Fairview School

As part of Volunteers’ Week 2019, the A9 Dualling: Luncarty to Pass of Birnam project team – including staff from Transport Scotland, Balfour Beatty and Jacobs – attended Fairview School in Perth and Kinross to undertake landscaping works to improve the school’s garden area, making it more accessible and attractive for students and their families.

Fairview School caters for children and young people with severe and complex and enduring additional support needs, including those with autism spectrum disorder.

Work involved

• initial donation of 10T of wood chippings, recycled from site
• preparation of ground, weeding and laying of terram
• laying edging
• transporting and spreading wood chips
• planting around 30 trees
• weeding mono block paths
• trimming back over 100m of hedge and bushes
• impromptu environmental mitigation required when the team discovered a bees’ nest in the garden and erected an exclusion fence to protect both the school children and the nesting bees.

After hours of hard work, the team completed a remarkable transformation to the school grounds.