Parks related questions

• Who does your grounds maintenance?
• What are my park’s opening times?
• Who do I contact about lost property?
• Can I access my property via the park for my building/garden/tree works?
• Can I do metal detecting in the park?
• Who runs the Glasshouse and other facilities in Jephson Gardens?
• Who runs the fair in St Nicholas Park and when is it open?
• How often is weed spraying carried out on paths and hard surfaces?
• Which chemicals do you use to kill weeds?
• Does the council use pesticides?
• What do you do about Japanese knotweed/Himalayan balsam/giant hogweed/ragwort? How do I control it?
• What precautions should the contractor take when spraying?
• How often are the hedges trimmed?
• How often are the shrubs pruned?
• Is it OK to cut back shrubs on council land so that I can carry out work to my boundary?
• Why hasn't the grass been cut?
• Why is the grass so long?
• Why have you stopped grass cutting?
• Why don’t you take grass cuttings away?
• Why are some areas of grass within the highway left long while other grass is cut short?
• People keep parking their cars on the highway grass verge near my property which is making them unsightly. Can you repair them?
• When is meadow grass cut?
• How often are play areas inspected?
• What is wrong with dumping garden waste?
• When are the park’s bins emptied?
• When will fallen leaves be removed from the park?
• The grass on the football pitch is so long that you can’t see the lines. What can be done?