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To: South Glos Council
Re-flower our Roadsides
I would like South Glos. Council to introduce a policy of only cutting roadside verges, banks and hedges once a year across the county as other Councils in the UK have done. We need these green networks to be managed to encourage wild flowers, wildlife and plants can thrive. The Council needs to issue strong environmental guidance for all towns, parishes and landowners to stop the constant mowing, strimming, flailing and pesticide spraying carried out all over the county in the name of 'tidiness'. For South Glos. Council to ensure that all hedges, banks and verges are treated as wildlife and wild plant havens and cared for as a precious environmental resource.
Why is this important?
Environmental diversity and preventing the decline and destruction of nature is crucial right now, and not tomorrow. We urgently need strong policy and guidance from the County Council to to prevent the ongoing decline and disappearance of native species. It was great that South Glos donated so many sapling trees last Autumn, but very few landowners were willing to plant them. The willingness to leave grass verges to flower has met with even less enthusiasm. We need strong leadership and sanctions to give nature a chance. The way the natural environment is managed needs strong guidance from those who have the power to make this change.
