Waverley residents are backing a council decision to take control of its grounds maintenance.
Krinkels has had its chips with Your Waverley?
Does this mean that our green spaces will be managed better than before?As a gardener, I am all for rewilding, but it still needs to be managed.Many areas within Waverley are being overrun with brambles, ragwort, bindweed, and rush grasses, to name a few. The ponds in Cranleigh are overgrown and being taken over by brambles and willows, which need a proper management schedule to benefit wildlife.Grass verges, especially those on road junctions, also need to be maintained regularly.
NO MOW MAY is now LET IT BLOOM JUNE – HOW’S ABOUT STREAMING AND SMARTING BY JULY?
The Jury is out on TO MOW OR NOT TO MOW the parks and open spaces in ‘Your Waverley.’
A bit like Marmite – you either love watching the Borough’s parks, open spaces and verges being left uncut to bloom … or you hate not being able to get a clear view of oncoming traffic at junctions – and sneezing to the chemist, with streaming eyes, trying to pick up a packet of antihistamine. BTW, we understand Horsham’s Rejuvenate Clinic has smashed hayfever by providing injections that work.
At the Waverley Web, the environmentalists love seeing poppies and daisies but are also incredibly concerned that Ragwort is running rampant.
Under the Weeds Act 1959 (WA 1959), Ragwort is classified as an ‘injurious weed’. If Ragwort is growing on land that you occupy, the Secretary of State has the power under the Act to serve a written notice on you requiring you to take such action as may be necessary to prevent the Ragwort from spreading within the time specified in the notice.
In line with previous pledges and our local election manifesto in 2023, Waverley has decided to bring the grounds maintenance service in-house and has agreed to a significant investment in equipment to enable this.
For residents who have seen the flexibility that the Godalming Town Council Green Spaces team brings to our local area, I hope you will agree that it makes sense.This will benefit the whole borough and support towns and parishes that want to step up as Godalming (and Farnham) Town Council has done. We can also respond to high growth years and other seasonal variations without expensive contract changes.This will also benefit any successor council that comes forward in the process of local government re-org. Whatever the council is called and whatever territory it has, the grass will still need cutting, and the work will still need to be done.
There will be more on this in the coming weeks as the new structure is mobilised.
Local people. Local decision.
What works and makes economic and environmental sense decided locally.
Alas in less than 18 months that will all go.
The cracked record continues to sound the note of doom without regre
Please. Wake up to what is coming.
“Local is at the heart of a Unitary Authority”
No it isn’t.
See the good people of Bolton and Bury for details.
MM
I suspect I am one of the majority of residents who already thought Waverley did this with it’s own labour! How long will this last though? What is the policy in the rest of Surrey in the Boroughs we are about to be mashed together with….. ?
WW thinks mashed is just the right word to describe the future of local government