The national campaign run by the charity Plantlife sees areas of grass left unmown throughout May to encourage pollinators and support the council’s biodiversity strategy.
Enable, which looks after the parks and open spaces in the borough, will allow selected areas of grass to be left unmown across 31 sites. Most sites will continue to be unmown in June. Local people are also being urged to leave the lawnmower in the shed during May to attract pollinators to their gardens. Read more about the campaign here.
Judi Gasser, cabinet member for the environment, said: “We love No Mow May and I’m delighted that we’re taking part again this year. It’s part of a range of measures we’re taking to protect and enhance our natural habitats, including creating wildflower meadows in King George’s Park and a pollinator habitat in Putney Park Lane.”
The areas being left unmowed in Wandsworth are:
- Putney Lower Common cemetery (whole site)
- Christchurch Gardens
- Falcon Park
- Battersea Park
- Wandsworth Park
- King George's Park
- Battersea Rise cemetery
- Wandsworth Common
- Tooting Common
- Fountain Rec
- St Nicholas Church
- Tibbetts Corner
- Morden Cemetery
- Fishponds Playing Fields
- King Georges Park
- Putney Vale Cemetery
- Battersea Rise Cemetery
- Putney Park Lane (whole site)
- The Pleasance (whole site)
- Roehampton Playing Fields (3m strip around the edge)
- Fishponds Playing Fields (2m strip around edge)
- Fairacres verge (cut 1m from the path)
- Putney Vale Open space (whole site)
- Tibetts Corner (whole site)
- Garratt Lane Old Buriel Ground (3m strip alongside the wall)
- West Hill Open Space (all three triangles), cut 1m around paths
- Medfield Street Open Space (whole site)
- Sheepcote Lane (whole site)
- Vicarage Gardens (part site)
- Beauchamp Terrace
- Wandsworth Park
Tooting Common in May 2022
