Skidmores Of Hertford Ltd · Company 02735465 · Trading heritage since 1993
Active, accounts up to date·subcontractor·Head office Ware
Skidmores of Hertford is a family-owned landscaping construction company spanning three generations, based in Rural Hertfordshire. With considerable expertise in the design and construction of commercial, business, and private housing developments, Skidmores specialises in soft and hard landscaping, groundworks, and grounds maintenance, also offering aftercare services. The company offers a positive and professional approach to the programming, management, construction, and maintenance of all types of landscape contracts.
They have worked on many prestigious projects including the Olympic Park, Blackfriars Bridge, Trinity Hospice, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, and Kempton Park Race Course. As full and participating members of the British Association of Landscape Industries, they have the expertise to work to the highest standards, within budget, and built on a tradition of quality spanning three generations.
Stratford
Part of the 2012 Olympics, this high-profile project involved building a main garden on a roof using lightweight materials, incorporating large semi-mature trees and specimen shrubs with ornamental clipped hedging.
Client · John Sisk
Kempton
Construction of a new floodlit, all-weather course to compliment the original course, blending with the local environment including a lake, grassland, and woodland. Supplied and planted trees, hedges, aquatic plants, and wildflower meadows. Later constructed a feature adjacent to the finish line.
Client · Heery International Limited
Heathrow
To 'soften' the impact of the new multistory car park, a large number of semi-mature white birch trees were sourced from Germany and planted around the building, underplanted with evergreen ivy.
Client · Laing O Rourke Limited
Belmarsh
Working within strict security, several thousand tonnes of premium grade topsoil were imported and planted with lawns. Black poplars of native providence were transplanted from recorded sites in Sussex to areas within the prison grounds as part of local ecology regeneration.
Client · Skanska
Northolt
Employed for over 2 years to provide all soft landscaping and associated works for the redevelopment of RAF Northolt to accommodate additional housing and personnel.
Client · Vinci Construction
London
Landscaping on both the Northside and Southside of the bridge. The Southside was completed for the Queens Jubilee celebrations, involving sourcing and planting semi-mature trees out of season. The Northside included replacing natural York stone paving and planting multi-stem birch trees. Materials were delivered at night and hoisted into position using mobile cranes, requiring road closures.
Client · Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited
Hackney
As the term contractor, working closely with the Borough Tree Officer, several hundred new trees of various sizes have been planted in streets and parks within Hackney. Dedicated teams undertake works to a high standard within tight time frames.
Client · Volker Highways
City of London
Restaurant terrace overlooking the City of London.
Client · RBS Building
Greenwich Millennium Village
A rainbow sandstone and granite sett paved courtyard within Greenwich Millennium Village.
Client · Greenwich Millennium Village
A private garden designed by Skidmores, which included a rock and water garden with pumps and a filtration system.
Oxford
Japanese garden designed by Skidmores, which includes the construction of a Tea House Gazebo at a private garden in Oxford.
John Sisk, Heery International Limited, Hyland Edgar Driver, Laing O Rourke Limited, Skanska, Capita Architecture, Vinci Construction, Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited, Jacobs, Volker Highways, London Borough of Hackney, RBS Building and 1 others.
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Skidmores of Hertford is a family-owned landscaping construction company with three generations of expertise in commercial, business, and private housing developments. Their listed services include Landscaping, Groundworks and Driveways & paving.
Skidmores Of Hertford Ltd is registered at Stonyhills Nursery, Sacombe Road, Ware, SG12 0HJ, in East of England.
Skidmores Of Hertford Ltd states that it works across London and South East Of England.
Accounts filed for the year to 2025 report 19 employees, which places the company in the 10-49 employees band.
Skidmores Of Hertford Ltd does not disclose turnover: UK small-company accounts are not required to. Based on headcount and trade debtors in its filed accounts, turnover is likely to fall between £1.6m and £4.2m. This is an estimate, not a filed figure.
Companies House lists Skidmores Of Hertford Ltd as active, with accounts most recently made up to 2025-03-31.
Skidmores Of Hertford Ltd displays British Association of Landscape Industries on its website.
Skidmores Of Hertford Ltd works in Residential and Commercial.
Skidmores Of Hertford Ltd was incorporated on 1992-07-29, though the company says it has traded since 1993.
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