FOI request (FOIR-548956386)

Pesticides

Requested Fri 22 September 2023
Responded  Wed 27 September 2023

1. Does the council use any pesticides to maintain green areas? If it used to, but has now stopped, when did it stop using them?

2. Please provide the following information on amenity pesticide usage, if the council uses pesticides, or used to in the past 5 years.

a. Does the council use Glyphosate?

b. Annual quantities of Glyphosate used over the past 5 years. Please provide the quantities for each year separately and include the total amount used both by the council internally and externally through contractors.

c. Where is Glyphosate used (for example, parks, play areas, highway verges and roads, pavements, tree bases, estate-based green spaces, and so on)?

3. How much has the council spent on purchasing and spraying amenity pesticides over the past 5 years? Please include staff costs of people employed to undertake this (either contractors or council staff).

4. If the council has stopped using pesticides, how much has been spent on maintaining green spaces over the last five years, and what method is used (for example, no control, manual weeding, mowing and hand pulling, propane/flame gun, and so on)? Please include staff costs of people employed to undertake this (either contractors or council staff).

5. If the council has stopped spraying, has it had any complaints for not well-maintained green spaces (that is, invasive and pernicious weeds) in the past 5 years and how many? Please provide the number of complaints for each year separately.

Response

1. Yes

2a. Yes

2b. Information not held

2c. Council owned parks and open spaces to treat Japanese Knotweed

3.

2019 - £326.78

2020 - £326.78

2021 - £492.18

2022 - £505.35

2023 - £530.61

4. Information not held

5. Information not held