Communities are encouraged to work together and help each other to deliver minor maintenance work.
Our Devon Highways Community Road Warden and Self-Help Schemes can help to support your community to ensure that self-help is well managed and that resources are used effectively and work is carried out safely.
If you are a community self-help group carrying out grass cutting or weed pulling contact your local Highways Team before starting work. We can talk to you about pre-purchasing green commercial waste disposal tickets so that you can dispose of the waste at Devon County Council recycling centres. This fee can’t be waived as we can’t make reductions in one service only to pick up the costs in another. To deal with the waste you could also:
- take small amounts home for composting
- speak to local allotment associations or community composting groups about using it
- leave it on the verges to rot down