Update from Surrey County Council

Identification of a resource and a team to progress wildflower/roundabout verges. This resource should be able to take forward and help me more. I am arranging for some site visits so I will keep you in the loop.

I am told the area you highlighted to me has had a blue heart put on it so it will not be cut. I am seeing if we can do some positive intervention this month as well as leaving it not to cut. It would be good to maybe talk about some social media/communications so we can let people know what is happening so they don’t just think someone has forgot to cut the grass. What do you think?

I have also been in touch with your local Member of the Council and he is keen to support – so I will make some introductions. He has also identified some other verges that we could look at near where you are.

We have a good idea of verges in surrey and have mapped them so we can look at how they could link as networks – we are now looking at how we can map roundabouts which we do not have as much information on and see which ones we should focus on as a priority from a nature recovery perspective.

I have discussed your ideas with my the Coordinator for the Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Surrey (LNRS) which is just being developed. We are going to have a strand within it on verges/roundabouts which I think we play the role of a pollinator action plan. I will do an introduction to the Coordinator for you very soon as it would be good to have your input. I have sent on the pollinator info you sent me. The LNRS is a great opportunity for this work.