Pages

03/08/2012

One Cut That Has Not Gone Far Enough in Broughty Ferry

Click on image to enlarge
It is unusual for a Labour Councillor to be arguing that the cuts are not going far enough. In this case, it's the Council's grass cutting that is not going far enough.
Let me explain. 
Have a look at my photograph of the small public green space which is situated at the Western end of Douglas Terrace in The Ferry. Taken over a week ago I hope it is possible for you to to see that a patch of grass on the bank of this public open space has not been mowed. Notice the daisies growing in the longer grass on the bank compared with the shorter length of more recently cut grass on the flatter section of this open space. And one week later that's how it remains but all the grass is longer with some much longer than the rest because it missed being mowed at the last cut.
I inquired, at the June Meeting of the Environment Committee, about why edges of flower beds and steep grassy banks are not mowed at the same time as the rest of the grass. After all that's what most folk would do in their own gardens. I was told that for 'efficiency' reasons flatter sections of grass are mowed separately from the steeper slopes and different mowers are used.
While I can accept that the mowing regime means that steep banks get cut later, I did not imagine that this meant there might be more than a week between different sections of the same expanse of grass being cut.
So that's why, in this instance, I am demanding more extensive cuts! 
As the famous expression goes, 'If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.'