Very controversial - and potentially deadly
Preston City Council has pledged to reduce its reliance on a controversial weedkiller which is currently used to treat parks, pavements and roads in its patch.
, which secured cross-party support after a slightly diluted version of the party’s demand was agreed at a recent meeting of the full council.Initially, Ingol and Cottam ward councillor John Rutter had proposed in a notice of motion that the authority stop using glyphosate within a year and phase out the use of all pesticides on council-owned land by 2025. However, the ruling Labour group amended his proposal, warning that the suggested timeframes were impractical.
“If we banned glyphosate products within a year and…all weedkilling products by 2025…it could damage our paths and our pavements, parks, roads, walls and our buildings. More weeds means more litter is trapped across the city,” Cllr Bailey said. “What we can’t have is the county council saying, ‘We’re leaving it up to the districts’ and the districts saying, ‘We can’t [change anything], because the county isn’t paying us any money’ – [and so] nothing happens.”
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