No Mow May is an annual campaign that encourages people to refrain from cutting their Céspedes throughout the month to allow wild flowers and other plants, providing a valuable source of food and habitat for pollinators such as bees and butterflies.
Harrow Council held the decision at a meeting of his cabinet on April 10 after he was asked if he would participate relaxing the cutting rules for the edges and parks.
The CLLR Assad of Labour asked why the administration “ignores support for the relaxed cut” of the public consultation and questioned whether, given the potential impact on insects and biodiversity, its commitment to protect the “abandoned” environment.
CLLR PRICHENH PATEL, who is responsible for cleaner streets and public safety, said: “We will not participate in ‘No-Mow May’ and the cutting rules for the edges and parks will not relax.”
But she said that the commitment of the Council to protect the environment is “far from being abandoned.”
Cllr Patel added: “Like most advice, Harrow is interested in promoting biodiversity to improve our environment.
“Within our parks and open spaces, there are deliberate efforts to improve biodiversity to the savage, which has been appealed from positive comments. We do not believe that a general prohibition of grass maintenance in May is the right approach or puts the waste first.
“To guarantee a balance of the biodiversity of the promotion and the open spaces that our residents can enjoy, the Environmental Operations Service has a comprehensive regime of the cut of grass in the parks, open spaces and grass edges to ensure that they present well and do not seem careless.”
Plantlife, a beneficial plant conservation organization that performs the No Mow May campaign, claims approximately 97 percent of rich meadows in flowers have lost since the 1930s, which means less food and habitat that can be avialized for wildlife. They suggest that grass and longer wild flowers help address pollution, benefit wildlife and can block carbon under the ground.
In 2023, Harrow Council updated his lawn management strategy, moving from a frequent method of ‘cut and solta’ to a cut and taken twice a year ‘. At that time, he said that few species of wild flowers grow rapid enough to flourish between the cuts, resulting in the decrease in pollinators and other wildlife that leaves green spaces to become “green deserts.”
He added that allowing the areas to grow “a little higher, for a little more” could make a “very real difference in a wide variety of bees, beetles, butterflies, moths, flies and other species.”
In the recent cabinet meeting, Cllr Patel said: “We are concerned about biodiversity and where we have opportunities we will identify the earth and we can let the grass grow wild flowers, etc., we are investigating that process. Streets.”
