Grass cutting across our estates is due to begin this month.
Here’s how often you can expect work to be carried out. Please remember, however, that these tasks are weather dependant so timings may need to change.
Grass cutting (most areas except those designated as meadow grass, or areas with limited accessibility): up to 13 cuts a year from March to October/November (within every 4 weeks), with cuts taking place more often during the summer.
Sheltered Accommodation: up to 16 cuts a year from March to October/November (around every 2 weeks), with cuts taking place more often during the summer.
Areas such as banks and slopes, or woodland edges, that have limited accessibility or need specialist equipment to manage will have two cuts a year.
We have a number of meadow grass areas at some of our sites that are designated “Do Nothing For Nature” sites. The grass is left to grow in order to encourage biodiversity. These areas will only have two cuts a year – once in early spring, and again in autumn.
These areas can be found at:
- Chantry Mead, Moorlands
- Coxley Drive, Larkhall
- Freeview Road, Bath
- Huish Court, Writhlington
- Lympsham Green and Cranmore Place, Odd Down
- Meg Thatchers Green, Bristol
- Midsummer Buildings, Bath
- Mountain Wood, Bathford
- Newbridge Court, Bath
- Norman Road, Saltford
- Pine Court, Radstock
- Poolemead Road and Eleanor Close, Bath
- Redland Park, Bath
- Southlands, Weston, Bath
- St Johns Court, Keynsham
- The Oval, Bath
- Whiteway Green, Bath
- Poplar Close, Bath
Other grounds works
Hedges and shrubs: 2 trims a year – summer and winter
Leaf clearance: once per year after full leaf fall (November onwards) – with the addition of Curo cleaners clearing paths that are blocked throughout winter to make safe
Paths and Parking Areas: twice per year