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No Mow sites
In 2024 and 2025 a trial of “no mow” approach was undertaken on a few sites throughout North Lanarkshire. We are now looking to expand the sites for 2026.
Areas of longer grass and plants form habitats which can provide shelter, feed and support for all kinds of beasties like insects and birds, they also provide nesting sites for species such as hedgehogs and toads. The grasslands will enhance the ecosystem services in parks and provide benefits such as pollution control, flood reduction, and improved physical and mental wellbeing through people enjoying the grasslands and wildlife.
The sites will be surveyed over the early summer period to examine the plants and invertebrate diversity to determine the success of not cutting the grass.
Plantlife initially started the No Mow movement and it has been encouraged throughout private and council-owned land.
Find out more about Plantlife's No Mow May Movement.
Map of trial sites in North Lanarkshire
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