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Council blunder sees wild flowers mown down

by Sarah Booker-Lewis - local democracy reporter
Monday 22 May, 2023 at 5:30PM
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Council blunder sees wild flowers mown down

Sophie Martin and Mitchie Alexander by the mown flowerbed

A community volunteer who planted a flowerbed full of wildflowers to mark the Platinum Jubilee was shocked to find it mowed down.

Despite it being “no mow May”, the entire verge along the eastern side of Lewes Road at Moulsecoomb has its grass and wildflowers cut in a council blunder last Thursday, (18 May).

Sophie Martin had weeded the flowerbed only the day before to encourage new growth after planting the flowerbed last year.

She secured £200 funding from the National Lottery’s Queen’s Platinum Jubilee for projects aiming to increase biodiversity, after approaching former Moulsecoomb and Bevendean councillor Kate Knight for help.

All the flowering plants were perennials which can survive for two years or more.

The flowerbed last year

Ms Martin said: “I saw this area as a perfect space for wildflowers, and I had all different plants to attract as much wildlife, animals and different insects as possible.

“We had no funding for borders, but I put sticks there. I left the weeds because it is no mow May. I just lighted, weeded and took out the bigger plants.

“They might come back. It was hard work getting the funding, and now we’ve lost this habitat and biodiversity.

“Even if it is no-mow May, mow where there are issues, mow where there are crossings – don’t mow where there is a huge space of habitat.

Newly elected Coldean and Stanmer ward councillor Mitchie Alexander went along to take a look at what had happened.

Councillor Alexander said: “I hope they will come back, but not all of them will. It does leave a negative feeling.

“It’s important to have wildlife corridors. We’ve got Wild Park, but if there are no little corridors, nothing can spread.”

Councillor Alexander said she would help Ms Martin secure funding for a border and replacement plans either through the council and voluntary organisations.

A council spokesperson said: “Unfortunately, the Jubilee flower planting was slightly obscured by grass growing around it, and we accidentally mowed over it.

“We’re really sorry about this and will be getting in touch with the organisers to apologise and offer a like-for-like replacement.”

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  1. Madison Saunders says:
    4 months ago

    I have it on good authority that things like this happen, because of the ‘system’ and the ‘banality of evil’. To mention a random example of a council employee, who found the body of a person who had jumped to their death from the seventh floor of a tower block, and was sent back at lunchtime. Despite the best efforts of the caretaker to hose down the car park, the council employee saw coagulated blood, shreds of scalp and medical paraphernalia in the gutter. For the employee to be retraumatised in this way is inexcusable.

    The point is that acts of harm are often committed by those, who are not evil. People, who ‘just follow orders’, pick up their children from school and leave coffee stains on the table. The council employee was ‘booked to return at 13:00’, they were ‘fully trained’, ‘any issues feed back to the office’.

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  2. Benjamin says:
    4 months ago

    They had no funding…oh my word, there’s an untapped and often underspent EDB pot for that area that would specifically and easily approve a grant to buy a border for green development!

    https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/estate-development-budget/submit-estate-development-budget-bid

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