Space to Thrive

Reception closed

Our main reception at Duke Street will be closed today (Wednesday 30 September), and our phone lines are only open for emergency calls, although you can still contact us online. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Back in 2019, we changed how we maintain around 1,700 acres of our grassland in the district. This includes everything from big areas like parks, right through to communal green spaces and small neighbourhood verges.

For decades, we’ve been cutting all of the grass every few weeks. Although we did this with the best intentions, we are realising that closely cropped grass is a desert for biodiversity. Now we’re doing things differently to restore lost grassland habitats before it’s too late to support our rapidly declining populations of pollinators.

Grass cutting Find out more about our cutting schedule, tall grass areas and the environmental impact of cutting grass.

Common concerns around tall grass We have carefully reviewed the concerns we hear most often and done our best to address them.

Verges Find out more about what a verge is, how we manage them and edging back.

Trees, hedges, plants and weeds Find out more about how we look after trees, how we manage weeds and our hedge and bramble cutting programme.

Biodiversity corridors Find out what we are doing to promote biodiversity and what biodiversity corridors and pollinators are.

Wildlife Find out what wildlife species we are trying to protect and what you can do to help.