How to propose a meadow/floral lawn on council land
If there’s a piece of unused council grassland in West Bristol that you think should be wildflowered over, please get in touch with us. We now have contacts within the council for our area, and some experience in how to do it.
Things may soon change, but for now, the council have told us that the best route to put forward an area is to do so via the Parks Department’s ‘report a problem in a park or open space’ page, here.
It may help your case if you can demonstrate local support. We set up and publicised a four-week public consultation, including via posters on the site itself, and created a Google form so that people could tell us whether they were in support of a meadow, and whether they’d like to volunteer to work on it. 300 people – 99%! – were in favour of our meadow proposal, and an amazing 190 were interested in volunteering.
It may also help if you can form a group who are willing to befriend the site and organise volunteers to do some of the physical work involved. The council is short on cash and so the more that you can do to help, the better.
If you want to start your own volunteer group and work with the Parks Department, email Ella Hogg (Ella.Hogg [at] bristol.gov.uk) who is coordinating groups across the city.
Things may soon change, but for now, the council have told us that the best route to put forward an area is to do so via the Parks Department’s ‘report a problem in a park or open space’ page, here.
It may help your case if you can demonstrate local support. We set up and publicised a four-week public consultation, including via posters on the site itself, and created a Google form so that people could tell us whether they were in support of a meadow, and whether they’d like to volunteer to work on it. 300 people – 99%! – were in favour of our meadow proposal, and an amazing 190 were interested in volunteering.
It may also help if you can form a group who are willing to befriend the site and organise volunteers to do some of the physical work involved. The council is short on cash and so the more that you can do to help, the better.
If you want to start your own volunteer group and work with the Parks Department, email Ella Hogg (Ella.Hogg [at] bristol.gov.uk) who is coordinating groups across the city.
