Bosses at prestoncouncil had been under pressure to scrap the use of glyphosate completely🌱
ward councillor John Rutter had proposed in a notice of motion that the authority stop using glyphosate within a year and phase out the use of all pesticides on council-owned land by 2025.
Cabinet member for the environment and community safety Freddie Bailey said that while he understood “the principle” of the Lib Dems’ original call, “at this moment in time, there isn’t an alternative product that produces the same results”. He also told the meeting that the city authority was paid – under an agreement with Lancashire County Council – to treat public highway areas for weeds twice a year and warned that if it stopped doing that work effectively, County Hall would be likely to end the arrangement and itself use glyphosate to do the job anyway.
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