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No Mow sites
Following a report to the Environment and Climate Change Committee in December 2023, we are trialling selected areas across North Lanarkshire as ‘no mow’ sites to help create natural corridors to support and enhance local wildlife.
Areas of longer grass and plants form habitats which can provide shelter, feed and support for all kinds of beasties like insects and birds, they also provide nesting sites for species such as hedgehogs and toads. The grasslands will enhance the ecosystem services in parks and provide benefits such as pollution control, flood reduction, and improved physical and mental wellbeing through people enjoying the grasslands and wildlife.
The sites will be surveyed over the early summer period to examine the plants and invertebrate diversity to determine the success of not cutting the grass.
Plantlife initially started the No Mow movement and it has been encouraged throughout private and council-owned land. Find out more about Plantlife's No Mow May Movement.
Map of trial sites in North Lanarkshire
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