One contractor for the whole of your enabling works

Zirkon was built to remove the cost, delay and risk of coordinating multiple specialist contractors on a single site.

Who We Are

The team behind Zirkon has been remediating land affected by invasive species since 2011, when TP Knotweed Solutions was founded. Zirkon launched in 2019 to bring that experience to a wider range of commercial land services, in response to clients who wanted more of their site handled by the same contractor.

Today Zirkon delivers invasive species remediation, contaminated land investigation, ecology, vegetation and tree clearance and site preparation for construction companies, housebuilders, infrastructure developers, local authorities and utilities across the UK. TP Knotweed Solutions continues to serve homeowners and private property owners.

Sectors We Work With

Zirkon delivers land remediation and environmental services across a wide range of sectors, including:

Our History

Where did it all begin? The timeline below shows the journey to date and how we got to the stage of launching Zirkon.

Some of our clients:

2011

TP Knotweed Solutions was founded

Tom Payne saw the opportunity to create a specialist company that could remediate land affected by Japanese Knotweed and other invasive plants.

2012

Incorporation & New Offices

2011 proved there was strong market demand for our services. In January 2012, TP Knotweed Solutions Ltd was incorporated. Oliver Zito joined the company and our first offices opened in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

2013

Rapid Growth & Office Move

TP Knotweed Solutions began to scale up quickly, carrying out herbicide treatments and Japanese Knotweed excavations nationwide. Our services were being used by some major companies: Buckingham Group, TEP, Speller Metcalfe, Workman LLP, Wickes, Ringley Chartered Surveyors, Gleeds, Willmott Dixon. The HQ was relocated to Banbury, Oxfordshire.

2014

Continued Growth, Systems & Marketing

Growth enabled investment in a leading CRM system alongside site and office staff. TPK reduced quotation delivery times by over 90% via systems and automation. Operations also saw vast improvements.

2015

Larger Premises, Staff & Commercial Expansion

Another office move and 12 new staff members joined throughout 2015. We also saw a significant increase in commercial clients all requiring remediation throughout the UK.

2016

Reputation & Repeat Clients

TPK beginning to build a trusted network of repeat clients within residential and commercial sectors.

2017

Excavation & Remediation Contract Wins

During this year TPK secured a significant number of high value excavation and remediation contracts from our commercial clients. Clients also wanted other services providing to facilitate development works.

2018

Setting the standard

TPK have rapidly become the market leader within the invasive plant remediation industry. Some top level stats include: Approximately 4,350 sites treated, 31,150 site visits, 78,400 tonnes of material excavated, 908,977 miles driven and 218,800m2 treated. Over the past few years we have been increasingly involved in pre-development works, ecological issues, tree works, site clearance, groundworks and remediation.

2019