{"id":23071,"date":"2025-06-10T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/?page_id=23071"},"modified":"2025-06-10T17:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:58:12","slug":"grass-cutting-in-the-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/maintaining-roads\/trees-and-vegetation-2\/grass-cutting\/grass-cutting-in-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Grass Cutting In The Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Communities are encouraged to work together and help each other to deliver minor maintenance work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/maintaining-roads\/self-help-and-community-support\/\">Devon Highways Community Road Warden and Self-Help Schemes<\/a>&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are a community self-help group carrying out grass cutting or weed pulling contact your local Highways Team&nbsp;<strong>before&nbsp;<\/strong>starting work. We can talk to you about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/commercial-waste\/apply-for-commercial-recycling\/\">pre-purchasing green commercial waste disposal tickets<\/a>&nbsp;so that you can&nbsp;dispose of the waste&nbsp;at Devon County Council recycling centres. This fee can\u2019t be waived as we can\u2019t make reductions in one service only to pick up the costs in another. To deal with the waste you could also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>take small amounts home for composting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>speak to local allotment associations or community composting groups about using\u00a0it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>leave it on the verges to rot down<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communities are encouraged to work together and help each other to deliver minor maintenance work. Our&nbsp;Devon Highways Community Road Warden and Self-Help Schemes&nbsp;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1879,"featured_media":0,"parent":1225,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-23071","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 19:11:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23085,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23071\/revisions\/23085"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}