Old Railway Line Garden Centre, Three Cocks, Brecon, Powys

The Old Railway Line Garden Centre is a privately owned garden retail business which has operated from the site for over 20 years. We retail a wide range of products including plants, furniture, garden sundries and pet supplies to suit our customer’s needs and requirements. The company has adopted a vision of continued sustainable development of the site and always aims to operate good environmental practice.

The company recognises the impact of its business activities and that good environmental management is essential. The Old Railway Line Garden Centre is seeking to reduce the impact that its retail business has on the environment and continual improvement forms an integral part of our long term business strategy.

The company believes it has a social and moral responsibility to comply with environmental legislation that relates to the business and where possible employ environmentally friendly measures.

Energy consumption within the business will be reviewed over the next twelve months to try and reduce inputs and use more effective, sustainable sources where possible.

Throughout the garden centre we encourage our customers to re-use, recycle and offer a rich range of flora to promote biodiversity and sustainable planting. We offer a range of reduced peat and peat free growing media and encourage its use amongst customers as we believe that as a garden centre we have a responsibility to raise awareness of such environmental issues.

We will ensure that our operations are designed, managed and controlled to prevent pollution to the environment by;

Collating deliveries to reduce travelling distances
Minimising waste streams at source and re-using or recycling wherever possible
Using local suppliers wherever possible to reduce the carbon footprint of our products
Using sustainable and recycled water supplies to reduce the use of treated water on plants.

We are committed to continually improve our environmental performance and will be developing an environmental management system to document all progress made and set targets for future improvement. We understand and accept that financial and manpower resources have to be allocated to fulfil this commitment. Managers at all levels are committed to considering environmental implications when making decisions on the running of the garden centre. It will be the responsibility of management to raise awareness of environmental issues to all employees through training and communications of environmental targets and performance.