Response 3756270

Response to request for information

Reference

3756270

Response date

16 June 2025

Request

Do you have your own local authority plant nursery? Does it have a peat-free policy?

Do you have a peat-free policy for sourcing plants and growing media (compost) for parks?

What percentage of peat-free plants do you estimate you currently use?

Response

Do you have your own local authority plant nursery? Does it have a peat-free policy?

• We do not have a plant nursery.

• The trees for the tree planting last winter were bare root.

  We purchase some evergreen container grown plants, but these are a small percentage of what we plant each year.

Do you have a peat-free policy for sourcing plants and growing media (compost) for parks?

• We do not have a formal peat free policy, however the environment policy states we will “specify and purchase the least environmentally damaging and wasteful products and materials” where we can.

What percentage of peat-free plants do you estimate you currently use?

• Not known