Chemicals tested to keep grass trim
CHEMICAL growth retardants are being tested on West Sussex roadsides for the first time in a bid to reduce the cost of grass-cutting and number of complaints.
The county strategic environmental services select committee was told checks on the environmental impact were under way.
The council receives hundreds of complaints every year about the quality of grass cutting. Some householders also air their grievances in the correspondence columns of local newspapers.
The authority is budgeting to spend 1.5m on urgan and rural grass-cutting during 2007-8 and a new grass cutting contract is due to be awarded.
For full story see West Sussex Gazette December 19