Road verges - ecological protection scheme

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Subject: Freedom of Information request - Road verges - ecological
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Dear Susan Davis,

Thank you for your correspondence received on 7 March 2009 making a request under the Freedom of Information Act for the following information in your email below .

The Greater London Authority (GLA) is the strategic and regional government for London and does not operation in the same way as Borough Councils. It is made up of a directly elected Mayor and a separately elected Assembly.

Whilst the Authority does not have responsibility for road verges in London, I have attached a link to a document produced by the Authority that is relevant to your query:

http://www.london.gov.uk/gla/publication...

You may want to contact individual Borough Councils: http://www.london.gov.uk/london/links.jsp and Transport for London: www.tfl.gov.uk for detail response to your query.

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Dear Sir or Madam,

If you run an ecological protection scheme for road verges in your
area, please could you provide me with the following details:

a) what protection measures a verge receives when it is included in
the scheme

b) the list of verges covered by the scheme (and their locations -
road name/number and six figure OS grid references would be fine)

c) for each verge, the specific reasons why the verge has been
included in the scheme - i.e. the notable species found there, or
the NVC community present

If you do not run such a scheme in your area, but you are aware
that another body does, please could you refer me to them instead.

Many thanks,

Susan Davis

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