Leicestershire council spends £6,000 on system to find out where grass is too long
Lawnmowers in Leicestershire have been fitted with satellite navigation systems to help council gardeners find where the grass is too long.
Leicestershire county council splashed out £6,000 on the technology, which will enable 14 ride-on mowers to be tracked from the county hall. An interactive computer map will show where contractors are, which areas of grass have been cut and when.
The system will locate patches that have not been mown. The county council’s leader, David Parsons, said he was pleased the council was “embracing innovative technology”. But not everyone is convinced it is a good use of council money.
“I appreciate that they are trying to improve the grass cutting service, but monitoring of the service could surely be achieved much cheaper, and probably more effectively,” one councillor, Adrian Smith, wrote on his blog.
