My Eastleigh will be unavailable on 13 - 14 May 2024
During this period, most online forms, including payments, will be unavailable.
For urgent help during this time, contact our Customer Services team.
During this period, most online forms, including payments, will be unavailable.
For urgent help during this time, contact our Customer Services team.
We mechanically sweep all our adopted roads on a scheduled basis; manually clearing those that our mechanical sweeper can’t access. We carry out leaf clearance work in autumn and winter. Two large mechanical sweepers clear leaves from the road surfaces and Council owned car parks, with our two smaller compact sweepers concentrating on cycle-ways, footpaths and other areas that the larger sweepers can’t get to.
We are taking a new approach to grass cutting across the Borough to help the local environment and encourage greater biodiversity.
We have moved from cylinder mowers to flail mowers, which can cut longer grass and also cut the sward (grass leaf) into smaller lengths that will break down quicker, returning nutrients to the soil. It will also provide greater opportunity for wild flowers and support pollinators, such as bees and butterflies.
A new system of grass cutting is now in place based on a process of managing areas of land in different ways depending on their location and use. For example:
Alongside Hampshire County Council we are responsible for maintaining non-privately owned hedges on an annual basis so that they retain their shape and size. The majority of this work is carried out during the autumn and winter. We don’t undertake work during the birds nesting season, unless there are public safety concerns.
We run a scheduled programme of shrub maintenance which includes pruning & mulching, the removal of weeds and litter clearance as required.