Chambers: Cutbacks leave roadsides lost in the weeds - County Down Spectator

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Chambers: Cutbacks leave roadsides lost in the weeds - County Down Spectator

By Iain Gray CUTBACKS to roadside grass-trimming schemes have one MLA worried North Down will be left looking like an untamed wilderness. Stormont’s Department for Infrastructure used to mow every roadside verge in the province twice per year – a schedule that was itself a money-saving reduction imposed during the austerity period of public spending in the 2010s. During the 2023/24 financial year, however, rural roads that don’t get much traffic…