THE HIGHEST PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

Associations

The British Association of Landscape Industries is established to promote, support and inspire all professional landscapers, garden designers and landscape suppliers to be leaders of an environmentally, ethically and commercially sustainable landscape industry.

BALI is the leading Trade Association for the nation’s landscape professionals and delivers exceptional business, technical and promotional support to their members.

The association’s Code of Conduct is detailed below:

• To uphold the standing of BALI, its members, and the wider landscape industry by seeking to achieve and maintain the highest standards of business and professional expertise
• To provide services only within their areas of competence and be responsible for the actions of all their staff and sub-contractors
• To use appropriately trained staff and ensure on-going staff training and development
• To operate in an environmentally, ethically, and commercially sustainable manner
• To address client concerns promptly, maintaining professionalism and courtesy, and seek to negotiate an equitable solution in the case of a dispute
• To cooperate fully with the BALI dispute resolution service (applicable to Registered Contractor and Registered Designer members onl

4th Corner is proud to be a member of BALI.

Established in 1995, the APL is a specialist group of the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA), and represents landscapers who have met a required standard of professionalism.

Members of the Association are registered with the government endorsed TrustMark scheme and are regularly inspected and agree to follow our Customer Charter. All APL members also hold appropriate insurances and have traded for a minimum of two years.

Landscape businesses can only join TrustMark through the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL). The APL carries out annual checks to ensure that the company meets certain standards.

These include checks on the company’s technical competence, trading record and legality. These checks include actual visits by independent assessors at real client’s projects and to view actual company documentation such as insurance certificates etc.

The APL only awards the TrustMark certificate if they are satisfied that they meet the Government endorsed standards.

TrustMark monitors the scheme operator to make sure that standards are being maintained.

APL are proud to be the only landscaping association that is an ‘approved scheme operator’ for TrustMark for the garden landscaping, fencing and patio and driveways sectors.

4th Corner are proud to be members of The APL and TrustMark Certified.