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Bexley parks & Recreation

Taxi_Lad
Taxi_Lad Posts: 3,766
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Any idea why nobody seems to be cutting the grass? Every grassy area seems to be knee deep. More cut backs??

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  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,651
    Taxi_Lad said:

    Any idea why nobody seems to be cutting the grass? Every grassy area seems to be knee deep. More cut backs??

    Ron Swanson has just been appointed by Bexley Council?
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  • henrythecat
    henrythecat Posts: 479
    I would imagine it is not about cuts, rather about having managed grasslands. Very fashionable across the country, but genuinely good for encouraging and supporting ecology in urban areas. It creates a habitat for all sorts of animals and insects which are good for our environment.
  • Charltonparklane
    Charltonparklane Posts: 5,786
    And dog shit you can't see when your walking.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    Taxi_Lad said:

    Any idea why nobody seems to be cutting the grass? Every grassy area seems to be knee deep. More cut backs??

    That would be my guess.

    Makes it difficult for a kick about with my son. I need a perfect playing surface to demonstrate my tricks.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    I took my granddaughters to the swing park yesterday and the grass in there was a foot long. Also saw a kiddie on the rope slide who was wearing a Palarse shirt, does it make me a bad person that I hoped he fell off?
  • Taxi_Lad
    Taxi_Lad Posts: 3,766
    henrythecat said:

    I would imagine it is not about cuts, rather about having managed grasslands. Very fashionable across the country, but genuinely good for encouraging and supporting ecology in urban areas. It creates a habitat for all sorts of animals and insects which are good for our environment.

    Appreciate this in areas that are a bit more "rugged" but parkland etc should be mown. Even the football pitches down by Hall Place are overgrown
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734
    Cue council blaming the weather for exceptional grass growth.
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,650
    I think the council have run out of money.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,912
    Mendonca In Asdas said:

    I think the council have run out of money.

    Why don't they flog a load of stuff on ebay?
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  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,342
    I have been away for the weekend and we have a council by election coming up. Over the weekends both Labour and the Tories have put leaflets through the door. The Tories are boasting on their leflets about the parks, no mention of the grass within them.

    My local park Stephens is a joke. Rarely cut and when it is it's not raked when cut making it a right mess. We go on about obesity in this country, but we don't even provide at times even the most basic of environments for people to play sport in.
  • pickwick
    pickwick Posts: 1,649
    They are selling them all off for housing as they are not being maintained (unless they are behind the leaders house) https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=bexley is bonkers I thought Greenwich was poorly run until I moved here!!
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,824
    It's a disgrace, and quietly frankly it's dangerous for us short people.

    I needed a machete just to wade my way through the grass verge outside AFKA Towers yesterday.
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,126
    AFKABartram said:

    It's a disgrace, and quietly frankly it's dangerous for us short people.

    I needed a machete just to wade my way through the grass verge outside AFKA Towers yesterday.

    Is it not more dangerous for everyone else's ankles if you're unsighted and swooshing a machete about??
  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 2,972
    The Tory government cuts, that is why.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    was out walking the dog over hall place yesterday and it was knee deep over the back fields.

    live opposite martens grove and that's quite well looked after.
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017
    palarsehater said:

    was out walking the dog over hall place yesterday and it was knee deep over the back fields.

    live opposite martens grove and that's quite well looked after.

    My old dears live pretty much next to Martens Grove and its always reasonably well looked after.

    I run with one of the Bexley Parks and Recreation top officers on a Wednesday, so I'll try and find out what I can from him and report back...

  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617
    msomerton said:

    The Tory government non cuts, that is why.

    That's why the grass is so high.
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,601
    Some of the Boroughs most prestige gardens are now maintained by volunteers. Like the old English garden in Danson Park. If not the council intended to turf over all the flower beds. Even in here the grass is not cut. Bexley council disgrace ,!
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    They're trying to sell the green spaces off anyway, so they won't have to worry about them soon.
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  • 1905
    1905 Posts: 2,751
    I took my dogs to small park near me, threw the ball once and it took me and the dogs half an hour to find it in the grass, by which time it was time to go home.
  • iamdan
    iamdan Posts: 2,421
    Grass hedges by Dartford Heath are high - makes it less inviting.
  • noisy_north_upper
    noisy_north_upper Posts: 53
    Sidcup Place hasn't been cut for months, bit of a coincident as me and a mate were talking about this bout an hour ago whilst walking past it.
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,431
    Was driving on a dual carriageway the other day and on the approach to a roundabout there was a grass verge between the two carriageways. The grass was so bloody tall that I could barely see any vehicles already on the roundabout. Granted I am a shortarse but if it carries on growing even normal people are going to struggle!
  • iamdan
    iamdan Posts: 2,421
    What a state this country/council is in if they cannot cut bloody grass due to cut backs.

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