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WildWays: boosting biodiversity on grass verges
To help boost biodiversity, we're cutting the grass once a year instead of 12 times a year in 14 trial areas.
These 'WildWays' will allow wildflowers to grow, reduce our carbon emissions and provide habitat and nectar for butterflies, bees and other insects. Over time, the variety of wildflowers will increase, either naturally or through seeding, helping to support even more wildlife species.
Our WildWays cover 33,225 sqm of grass – about 11% of the roadside grass area we manage.
We have added appropriate signs on the verges. We mow a strip around the edge of each wild verge more often to define the boundary.
Locations of Wildways
- Aberconway Road j/w Barney Road
- Bishopsford Road o/s 180, 192, 202, 206, 218
- Bushey Road Part 1 Central Island
- Bushey Road Part 2 Dorien Way
- Bushey Road Part 3 Martin Way
- Bushey Road Part 4 Sydney Road
- Bushey Road Part 5 O/S 17-59
- Bushey Road Part 6
- Chester Gardens and Cartmel Gardens Morden
- Green Lane Central Reservation
- Love Lane Morden
- Malling Gardens
- Marham Gardens
- Middleton Road - Evesham Green
- Morden Hall Road o/s 56, 68, 70-98
- Neath Gardens
- St Helier Avenue o/s 116, 76
- Victoria Road Mitcham