At a recent Parish Council meeting in my village the PC voted to carry on spraying round the village tennis court and play area with weedkiller. When I enquired what the weedkiller is that they use I was told it was glyphosate and I was also told that it was ok because it is what the County Council use.
I wrote to Leicester City Council and to Leicestershire County
Council asking them to stop spraying with glyphosate as lots of other Councils
have already stopped spraying.
Leicestershire County Council responded saying they had put the
spraying (of the highways) on hold and it was under review and they would let
me know the result of the review and their decision about spraying.
Leicester City Council were not quite so helpful in
as much as they are carrying on spraying and explained their reasons why they
had to. Basically, they said they had
tried and researched other methods but they were too costly and time consuming
so they needed to keep spraying.
This is an ongoing project and we are formulating our
response to Leicester City Council at the moment. Watch this space….
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