FOI Request Gardening Assistance
Request 101001452016
1. Advise if you provide Assisted Garden Maintenance and if so the qualifying criteria?
2. Advise how many households receive Assisted Garden Maintenance per annum who meet the qualifying criteria.
3. Can you break this down by number of households who obtain grass cutting and the number who receive a hedge trimming or other service and those who receive both services and the charges if an external contractor is used to provide this service?
4. How many households receive Assisted Garden Maintenance per annum who do not meet the qualifying criteria.
5. Can you break this down by number of households who obtain grass cutting and the number who receive the hedge trimming service and those who receive both services and the income this generates?
6. Advise if an external contractor is used to provide this service broken down by hedge cutting and grass cutting and their charges for providing this service?
Response 20-03-2017
- This information is available on the Moray Council website at http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_41526.html
- 478
- Only offer a grass cutting service which is carried out by the Council’s Lands and Parks
- 92
- We only offer a grass cutting service and those not entitled to receive the service free are charged £47.87 per annum. This equates to £4,404.04 income per year from the 92 households who pay for the service.
- The grass cutting scheme is carried out by the Council’s Lands and Parks section.