Thursday 3 November 2022

to Ed Bradford of Dudley MBC

 Dear Ed - please reply

  1. What is this detailed report mentioned last time?
  2. Could you agree that chemicals/herbicides are only used as a very last resort to kill weeds?  A bare minimum spraying regime be enforced, perhaps?
  3. That residents who complain at lack of spraying may be asked if they would like to receive payment for voluntarily pulling up unwanted plant growth along pavements that they are complaining about?
  4. That a no mowing regime is enforced to keep vegetation only away from road edges.  Especially the section of the A456/Manor Way between Jct 3 Manor Way and Manor Lane, Halesowen.  Rewilding to give nature a hand when it does not affect visibility.
  5. Can the money saved in minimising the use of finite fossil fuel chemicals in this way, be used to pay for a twice yearly cutting back of vegetation on the UK's major but unrecognised, 22 Kms urban-rural-urban, Black Country Cycle-Walk Mudway?  The Dudley section is a disgrace and, most immediately, needs the vegetation cut back to about 1.5 to 2 metres width to allow wind and sun to dry out the puddles, pools and mud from the Barrow Hill Nature Reserve section, going towards Himley.  It should be a popular, commuter, leisure and business route for cyclists (no 70 mph, e-mopeds), walkers and horse riders.
Best wishes

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