HND LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT (LAND USE)

Resources

• Extensive glasshouse facilities
  
• Field nursery stock production
  
• Computer controlled environmental and irrigation systems
  
• Fruit and container production units
  
• Plant propagation centre
  
• Fully equipped landscape training centre
  
• Demonstration garden for leading national retailers
  
• Fully labelled plant collectiopn throughout the College grounds
  
• 10 acres of landscaped gardens and two National Collections within Broadview Gardens
  
• Fully commercial garden centre
  

Typical Employers
Local authorities, nurseries, garden centres, publicly and privately owned gardens, commercial landscaping companies.

Industry Links

Students benefit from a wide range of links with commercial nurseries, research institutes, organic producers, public and privately owned gardens as well as exposure to the retail world through our onsite garden centre. The College is also a member of the Royal Horticultural Society; NCCPG and the Hardy Plant Society.

More about Horticulture, Landscape & Design Courses faculty

Providing a sound knowledge base in landscape management techniques, as well as a well balanced range of scientific, technical and management skills, this course will enable students to apply their understanding across a range of environments.

UCAS Course Code: 3K4D H HND/LMLU

Entry Requirements

80 UCAS points: 1 A level at Grade C or above or National Diploma at PPM or equivalent supported by GCSEs.

Additional Experience
Applications from mature students without the standard entry qualifications, or who are working in the industry, are warmly welcomed.

Location
Hadlow

Course Duration
Full time: 2 years, 2 days per week. Part time: 1 year, 1 day per week.

Course Content

Year 1

• Hard and soft materials (double module)
• Landscape practices
• Information technology
• Plant protection
• Plant science
• Soil science
• Surveying

Year 2

• Arboriculture
• Ecology and conservation
• Historic landscapes
• Landscape contracts and procedures
• Sustainable landscape management
• Planting design
• Turf culture
• Recreational land use

Assessment Method
Assignments and examinations.

Progression Routes
Successful students can progress onto the BSc (Hons) Landscape Management (Land Use) programme. Alternatively they may gain employment as amenity and access managers, rural or suburban park wardens or officers working for conservation and amenity trusts.

Specialist Equipment Needed
Protective clothing, footwear and drawing equipment.

• How to apply