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UK: Opposition to council plant nursery plans

A North Yorkshire council may rethink controversial plans to sell off its plant nursery site following public opposition. The Manor Road Nursery, run by Scarborough Borough Council, produces about 320,000 plants a year used in bedding, hanging baskets, containers and displays across the district, but the authority last year unveiled plans to close it and outsource plant-growing to an external firm to cut costs.

Campaigners claimed Scarborough could lose its award-winning floral displays and heritage plants and a council group was set up to look at the issue.

It has now recommended investigating other ways of making the savings, keeping the nursery’s operation in-house and reducing its annual budget by at least £34,000 by 2015/16.

The recommendations of the task group will go before the council’s scrutiny committee next month, before being discussed by its cabinet with a final decision being taken at a full council meeting in May.

Source: yorkpress.co.uk