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Council prepares greening strategy for cabinet meeting 10/06/2025 Gloucester City Council’s Urban Greening Strategy will be considered by cabinet members this week.
Councils could be forbidden from using destructive pesticides in parks 25/04/2025 MPs will today debate a proposal that could see the use of 'toxic' weedkillers by councils banned.
Second council U-turns on pesticide use 01/02/2024 Cambridgeshire County Council has agreed to reintroduce chemical weed killer, following Brighton's recent call to recommence pesticide treatment.
A war on pesticides? 10/07/2019 With 40 councils now banning the use of Roundup over safety fears, Mark Whitehead finds out why the debate on using chemicals to kill weeds continues to rage.
Council secures UK’s first Japanese Knotweed prosecution 07/12/2018 A Bristol property owner has become the first person to be prosecuted for failing to control the spread of Japanese Knotweed.
The cost of glyphosate-based weed killers 26/07/2017 While some councils may be banning the use of glyphosate-based herbicides, others still advocate their use to control weeds. William Eichler investigates.

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