ARTIFICIAL PITCHES
Hotel’s big ambition T
he Lensbury Hotel, in Teddington, London, has selected GreenFields to maintain their two full-sized rugby pitches, one of which is a recently installed GreenFields XtraGrass hybrid pitch. The four star hotel, set within 25 acres of landscaped grounds, is the top choice in the UK for domestic and international rugby teams offering an elite training facility. Following the completion of their second rugby pitch with XtraGrass, The Lensbury Hotel identified the need to recruit a specialist sports turf company to put in place a professional maintenance package ready for top international level play. Selected as the 2015 Rugby World Cup base for the international teams of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, The Hotel is no stranger to famous sporting clientele even playing host to regular training camps for the England
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Rugby team as well the England Sevens team and top UK sides. “We have now worked with GreenFields for over a year and have found them to be responsive to our needs, it is for this reason that we have engaged them to manage both of our pitches. We look forward to a long working partnership with them,” said Ivor Turner, General Manager. GreenFields has over a decade’s experience working with top clubs across the UK – designing, installing and maintaining artificial, hybrid and natural grass pitches. The GreenFields Grounds Team are specialists in maintaining sports pitches and already operate at a number of other prominent sites in the UK including the Ricoh Arena – home to Wasps RFC and Coventry City FC, The Kassam Stadium where Oxford United FC play and more recently Clifton RFC after winning a contract to maintain their three pitches.