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http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/parks-to-grow-wild-in-council-cash-saving-bid-1-3587166
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"Parks to grow wild in council cash saving bid"
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Interesting. I'm now on the Figgate Park committee and we've been talking about areas being for sports or recreation that should be mown more (with other areas a little wilder, or having more planting for wildlife - which is kinda my role upon the committee...)
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"Most green spaces are mown fortnightly to maintain a maximum grass length of 60 millimetres"
Fortnightly?!!
Seems a tad excessive.
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Pen a few sheep in the parks once a month, with an itinerant shepherd moving from one park to the next during the summer. Sorted!
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Sheep replace lawn mowers in Paris suburb
Four little black sheep have started work as eco-friendly lawn mowers in a largely working-class district in northeastern Paris.
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Its not so long ago there were cattle grids across all the roads into Holyrood Park/Arthurs Seat and sheep grazing there. I think it must have been late 70's they were finally removed.
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Had forgotten about the cattle grids!
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Sheep in Holyrood Park might slow the traffic.
Probably why they were removed...
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No idea if this eventually happened.
"Council swops lawnmowers for sheep to cut their grass"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-464486/Council-swops-lawnmowers-sheep-cut-grass.html
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"Its not so long ago there were cattle grids across all the roads into Holyrood Park/Arthurs Seat and sheep grazing there."
Indeed. We had to pay £12 to the Queen's Shepherd for a sheep which our dog chased over the crags. Must have been early 1970s. Oh the dog died too, fell over the cliff mid-chase.
So, paysans letting dogs off the lead may have been a factor too.
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The council maintained grass areas around East Craig certainly don't get mowed fortnightly. I suspect they are lucky to get more than 4 cuts a year currently.
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Usually grass Gets cut on days it is raining, well actually it also gets cut on dry days but I always notice the wet cuts more.
The skip the grass cuttings will be one of the budget balances that everyone picked. It will save pounds.
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Im not clear how reducing grass cutting will save the council any money.
Although some areas may be mown my contractors, its council employees that i see in our parks etc and they are not proposing to lay off any staff in this proposal..Posted 9 years ago # -
@14Westfield - what makes you think the council has done its sums on this one?
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@14Westfield Opportunity cost. Cooncil could then redeploy the workers to tasks that they would otherwise have to take on staff/pay overtime to do. I'd suggest sweeping cyclepaths...
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There are areas in Craigmillar Castle park that are cut once a year and allowed to grow otherwise. There were plans to have them cut for silage (so the maintainance work would pay for itself), but I think there was too much ragwort, even after volunteers had been in removing it.
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I'm not sure about this... long grass accumulates litter, verges along cycle paths reduce the usable width of the path. As Bruce says, weeds start to take over - lovely if it's a managed wildflower meadow, a pain if it's just full of ragwort and the seeds spread to gardens etc. locally.
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