Brighton & Hove Council expects to treat Hollingdean streets with toxic Glyphosate in July 2024
It would be wonderful to help keep Hollingdean a haven for wildlife and make sure we are taking care of our own health too. We can protect the insects that feed many small mammals and birds and pollinate our food supply by avoiding its use.
If you would like to prevent chemical treatment outside your home, protect your loved ones and save our wildlife, it is time to clear away and pavement plants and plants in the road gutters. Any green growth, not in flower at the time, will receive an oily drip treatment three times this year. Glyphosate is thought to contribute to a rise in neurological diseases like Parkinsons and builds up in our water supply from run off into drains and the water aquifers beneath us. Young children’s health is also particularly affected. And the massive drop in butterflies, bees and other insect populations is thought to be largely due to pesticide use. As Chris Packham and the Springwatch team have been telling us this summer – ‘one in six species in the UK is threatened with extinction and they need our help’. But anyone can be a wildlife hero and help to turn this problem around!
Would you like support from the council to keep your street free of Glyphosate this summer, contact the Community Clean Up team for equipment and to have the debris taken away. communitycleanup@brighton-hove.gov.uk
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Hello & good morning! Thank you for getting in touch.
I am replying in response to this email and wonder whether someone might kindly advise/clarify precisely what would be required of us to prevent them from spraying in Hollingdean/on or near the Crossway?. We grow food here in our back garden woodland food forest & don’t want that toxic carcinogenic rubbish anyplace near us.
Thank you. In humility and grace. Helen.
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Dear Helen, apologies for a late reply, Appreciate you want to do all you can to protect your local area and your own Food Forest. As far as we know the council intends to treat any green growth that is not in flower at the time of the treatment on pavements and in road gutters. They will use an oily drip treatment containing Glyphosate. The only way to prevent this from happening is to remove the growth, even though we do know the value of the plants for pollinators etc. If you would like support with this, contact the Tidy Up Team who will provide some equipment and take the debris away. Write to them at communitycleanup@brighton-hove.gov.uk. Other residents have found them very helpful and responsive. Good luck with it. Let us know how you get on.
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