Landscape services in Dubai hold significant potential due to several factors. The city’s rapid urbanization, driven by residential and commercial construction projects, creates a growing demand for landscaping services to enhance property aesthetics and create green spaces. Moreover, the real estate industry recognizes the value of well-designed outdoor areas for attracting customers and tenants.
Dubai’s focus on sustainability and green initiatives further expands the scope of landscaping services. There is a strong demand for landscaping services prioritizing water conservation, native plant species, and sustainable design principles, aligning with the city’s goal of increasing green cover. The emphasis on creating and maintaining parks and recreational areas also creates opportunities for landscaping service providers.
As a major tourist destination, Dubai’s tourism and hospitality sector presents additional prospects. Hotels, resorts, and tourist attractions require landscaping services to create inviting outdoor spaces for visitors.
8130.00 Landscape Care and Maintenance Service Activities
Apply for a business license under Services to Buildings and Landscape Activities and choose business activity Landscape Care and Maintenance Service Activities with activity code 8130.00.
With your Landscape Care and Maintenance Service Activities license, you can provide a wide range of services related to planting, care, and maintenance of various outdoor spaces. Here are the major activities covered under your license:
- Parks and Gardens: You can engage in the planting, care, and maintenance of parks and gardens for private and public housing, public and semipublic buildings (such as schools, hospitals, administrative buildings, and church buildings), and municipal grounds (including parks, green areas, and cemeteries).
- Highway Greenery: Your license allows you to provide landscaping services for highway greenery, which includes roads, train lines, tramlines, waterways, and ports. You can also beautify and maintain green areas along these transportation corridors.
- Industrial and Commercial Buildings: You can provide landscaping services for industrial and commercial buildings. This includes designing and maintaining green spaces around these structures, enhancing their aesthetic appeal and environmental sustainability.
- Building Greenery: Your license permits you to provide greenery services for buildings, including the creation and maintenance of roof gardens, façade greenery, and indoor gardens.
- Sports Grounds and Playgrounds: You can engage in the landscaping and maintenance of sports grounds, such as football fields and golf courses, as well as playgrounds.
- Water-related Landscaping: Your license allows you to provide services related to stationary and flowing water areas. This includes landscaping and maintaining basins, wet areas, ponds, swimming pools, ditches, watercourses, and plant sewage systems.
- Environmental Protection: Your license encompasses the provision of landscaping services for plants that serve as protection against noise, wind, erosion, visibility, and dazzling.
- Ecological Land Maintenance: Your license allows you to engage in the maintenance of land to keep it in good ecological condition. This may involve practices such as soil conservation, vegetation management, and ecosystem preservation.
With this comprehensive license, you can provide landscape maintenance services in diverse areas, such as residential, commercial, public, and natural settings.
Inclusions
With your Landscape Care and Maintenance Service Activities license, you can engage in planting, caring, and maintaining parks and gardens for private and public housing, public and semipublic buildings (schools, hospitals, administrative buildings, churches, etc.), municipal grounds (parks, green areas, cemeteries, etc.), highway greenery (roads, train lines, tramlines, waterways, ports), and industrial and commercial buildings.
Additionally, you can create greenery for buildings (roof gardens, façade greenery, indoor gardens), sports fields (football fields, golf courses, etc. ), playgrounds, and lawns for sunbathing. Your license also covers providing greenery services for stationary and flowing water (basins, alternating wet areas, ponds, swimming pools, ditches, watercourses, and plant sewage systems) and plants for protection against noise, wind, erosion, visibility, and dazzling. You can also engage in the maintenance of land to keep it in good ecological condition.
Exclusion
The Landscape Care and Maintenance Service Activities license restricts the range of services you can provide. For example, you cannot engage in commercial production and planting for commercial purposes, including producing plants, trees, and tree nurseries (except for forest tree nurseries).
Furthermore, your license does not allow you to undertake activities such as maintaining land for agricultural use, conducting construction activities specifically for landscaping purposes, engaging in landscape design and architecture activities, or operating botanical gardens.
Third-Party Approval -Pre License
Before you can apply for the Landscape Care and Maintenance Service Activities license from Meydan Free Zone in Dubai, there is an additional step to follow. You must obtain third-party approval from the Agriculture and Irrigation Department of Dubai Municipality for landscaping activities.
Landscape services are closely regulated and overseen by the Dubai Municipality. In addition, the Agriculture and Irrigation Department specifically focuses on matters related to agriculture, landscaping, and irrigation. Therefore, the Dubai Municipality must approve your landscaping activities to ensure compliance with its rules and guidelines. It is essential to adhere to the municipality’s landscaping standards and to operate within the laws.
You may be required to submit certain documents to the Department of Agriculture and Irrigation during the approval process, such as your business plan, project details, environmental impact assessments, and any other relevant information. During the review process, the department will determine whether your proposed landscaping activities follow their regulations and guidelines. You can apply to the Meydan Free Zone for a Landscape Care and Maintenance Service Activities license once you have obtained approval from the Agriculture and Irrigation Department. For your landscaping business to run smoothly and legally, you must follow the proper procedures and receive all the necessary approvals.
7110.44 Landscape Architecture Services
Apply for a business license under Architectural and Engineering Activities and Related Technical Consultancy and choose business activity Landscape Architecture Services with activity code 7110.44.
As a Landscape Architecture Services license holder from Meydan Free Zone, you can specialize in creating designs, plans, and specifications that enhance and organize the aesthetics of parks, lands, and gardens. In addition to the aesthetic aspect, your role as a Landscape Architecture Services provider also involves outdoor spaces’ practical organization and functionality. You can design layouts that optimize the use of available land, incorporate pathways, seating areas, and other amenities, and ensure proper drainage and sustainability considerations. You can transform spaces into visually pleasing, functional, and harmonious environments by combining your design, planning, and integration expertise.
Inclusions
Your Landscape Architecture Services license covers a wide range of services, including architectural consulting, engineering design, drafting, building inspection, surveying, mapping, and similar activities. With your business license, you can engage in various architectural consulting activities such as building design, drafting, urban and city planning, and landscape architecture.
Your license permits you to undertake engineering design tasks, which involve the application of physical laws and principles of engineering in the design of machines, materials, instruments, structures, processes, and systems. You can also provide consulting services for machinery, industrial processes, and industrial plant projects, including those related to civil engineering, hydraulic engineering, traffic engineering, and water management projects. Additionally, your license authorizes you to undertake project development and implementation related to electrical and electronic engineering, mining engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, safety engineering, and project management activities associated with construction projects.
Moreover, your license allows you to work on projects involving air conditioning, refrigeration, sanitary and pollution control engineering, acoustic engineering, and similar areas. It also covers geophysical, geologic, and seismic surveying, geodetic surveying, including land and boundary surveying, hydrologic surveying, subsurface surveying, and cartographic and spatial information activities.
Exclusions
Your Landscape Architecture Services license distinctly excludes certain activities. These include test drilling activities associated with mining operations, the development or publishing of software related to these services, computer consulting activities, technical testing, research and development activities about engineering, industrial design, interior decorating, and aerial photography.
Third-Party Approval -Post License
After acquiring your Landscape Architecture Services license from Meydan Free Zone in Dubai, there is an additional requirement to obtain approval from the Agriculture and Irrigation Department of Dubai Municipality.
The Agriculture and Irrigation Department of Dubai Municipality oversees and regulates various aspects of landscaping and green spaces within the city. The municipality’s approval ensures that landscape architecture projects are sustainable and environmentally friendly. In obtaining approval from the Agriculture and Irrigation Department, you demonstrate your commitment to the local requirements and regulations.
Economic Substance Return
Business activities Landscape Care and Maintenance Service Activities (8130.00) and Landscape Architecture Services (7110.44) in Dubai are exempt from regulatory requirements like Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) and Economic Substance Regulations (ESR). Entities in this sector are not obligated to comply with these regulations as they do not apply to these specific business activities.
Anti-Money Laundering Compliance
Dubai ensures the integrity of its financial system through Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance, which prevents money laundering and terrorist financing. Business activities of the Landscape Care and Maintenance Service (8130.00) and Landscape Architecture Services (7110.44) companies are not subject to AML regulations.
