Accident blackspots in the rural areas will also be cut six<\/strong> times from April to October. Other rural verges, including dual carriageways, will be cut twice<\/strong> during the same period.<\/p>\n Towns, parishes and communities can do additional cuts between our cuts but they should As usual, we will implement special cutting regimes on verges the Dorset Wildlife Trust<\/strong> has\u00a0identified as special.<\/p>\n Dorset Highways aims to eradicate Japanese Knotweed and to control Common Ragwort, but resources are limited for weed control so progress is necessarily slow.<\/p>\n For more information about the county council\u2019s cutting regime, please phone\/email Dorset Direct on T: 01305 22 1020.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rural cuts Accident blackspots in the rural areas will also be cut six times from April to October. Other rural verges, including dual carriageways, will be cut twice during the same period. Additional cuts Towns, parishes and communities can do additional cuts between our cuts but they should contact us to ensure they comply with… Continue reading Dorset County Council\u2019s Grasscutting Regime<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-parishcouncil","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MmHE-av","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 23:11:13","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Additional cuts<\/h2>\n
\ncontact us to ensure they comply with our safety guidelines and avoid overlap and wasting
\nresources. We are providing training to existing lengthsmen so that they can take on some of this work, as negotiated with individual parishes.<\/p>\nConservation verges<\/h2>\n