Verges & Greens

Parish Council grass cutting schedule 2025

Mepal Parish Council will manage the grass cutting highlighted in “red” as indicated below. Cambridgeshire County Council will cut areas under its ownership (marked in green) under their own management programme.

The Cambridgeshire County Council cutting agreement formalised some years ago has now been terminated. As the payment for this has not increased over the last 10 years, the Parish Council no longer receives sufficient income to conduct the frequency of cut demanded by residents and therefore the Parish Council will concentrate on Parish Council owned land.

Maintenance of land not owned by the Parish Council will be undertaken by Cambridgeshire County Council or East Cambridgeshire County Council as applicable. At this stage the majority of the verges, hedgerows, highways and paths are under the responsibility of Cambridgeshire County Council, however Meadow Way and River Close remain under the management of East Cambridgeshire County Council.

Mepal Memorial (High Street) and the verge which sites the village sign are “verges” and fall under the ownership of Cambridgeshire County Council.  Under the new agreement this means both areas will form part of the County cutting programme and not that of the Parish Council.

We wish to reassure parishioners that these areas will be maintained to protect their standing within our community should the CCC schedule fail to meet parish residents’ expectations. Having listened to Parishioner feedback, we feel that, although an additional financial burden as it is likely to require weekly or bimonthly cuts even though the land is not ours, this is the correct decision for the Parish.

Please use the form in the contact us page if you have any comments. There are also links to ECDC and CCC if your enquiry relates to land not owned by the Parish Council.