On Wednesday evening in the URC Church Hall
the usual suspects (River Community Council division) met for their monthly
meeting and grass cutting was once again on the agenda. Chair Tommy Hogg stated
that he had been to see the new ward manager concerning his group’s Community Challenge
bid to Highland Council. He seemed optimistic but also had some bad news to. He
said:
”One that that has been made quite clear is that West and Suburban - they really don’t want to be involved in it.”
Despite the news that the town’s two other
Community Councils do not wish to align themselves with River’s bid to bring
the cutting of amenity areas back to local control, Liz was very supportive and
she said:
"Myself and Colin had a meeting with Michelle
Morrison and Richard Guest as well about taking this forward as well so we’ll
really happy to work with you to – they were very positive about there being an
opportunity here for River CC here if they want to do that.”
Simon Noble found Liz’s statement encouraging but added: “It is disappointing that the other two Community Councils are not willing to participate.”
The political support from the two
Nairnshire Councillors who are part of the ruling Glenurquhart Road
”There’s no reason it can’t be done locally by local people and I think you would get a far better result.”
on the note of grass cutting, What is the point in these over grown wild patches of grass along the A96? for example across from the entrance to tradespark there is a flower bed with a plaque that is barley visable, Then along the bank at Broadhill some of it is cut right up to the fence line of the houses and others not!
ReplyDeleteLooks terrible!
Morning anon, most of the cutting close to the A96 is the responsibility of BEAR, the contractors for the Scottish Government.
ReplyDeleteThey were waiting for the daffodils to die back before cutting. The daffodils were late this year so consequently the unkempt patches were/are there longer.
Percy MacThrower says - Even the Scottish National Trust in their Heritage Gardens have only just cut their bulbed areas. It is good for the bulbs if their foliage is left to die back naturally.
ReplyDeleteWhat a bloomin' mess - perhaps the Council and Bear need to take a basic course in horticulture - the foliage died back weeks ago allowing for bulb foodstores to be replenished for next years spring display. Grass cutting in Nairn and Highland in general is an absolute disgrace / the officers responsible should hang their heads in shame
ReplyDeleteThere were still plenty of green daffodil stems up to about a fornight ago anon. Can testify this from personal experience and still the odd green stalk about. They just came out so late this year - or came out like they used to do years ago?
ReplyDeleteIf this the case then just to be sure we should allow a further 4 weeks to ensure full die back is achieved. This would result in the final bulb cut back being actioned by mid August - this farcical grass cutting schedule must be reviewed / if not then resort to the tried and tested method of spraying the verges with whisky and the grass will come up half cut!
ReplyDeleteIf it went another week I would have been out there cutting it myself! Its a joke!
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