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West Suffolk Council Grass Cutting Programme West Suffolk Council grass cutting position to week ending 15 August and scheduled grass cutting for week commencing 16 August 2021 Haverhill and rural villages Location Current position until Next week – Monday 16 end of week – Friday 13 August 2021 August 2021 Haverhill Town 1. Haverhill Cemetery 1..Haverhill Cemetery. 2. Park Road area 2. Chilvers Way area 3. Town centre grassed 3. Strawberry Fields area areas 4. Chimswell Way area 4. Clements estate 5. East Town Park 6. Parkway Industrial Estate Rural villages 1. Withersfield 1. Barnarditson 2. Great Bradley 2. Hundon 3. Great Wratting 3. Kedington 4. Coronation Cottages, 4. Cavendish parish Moor Pasture Way 5. Cavendish parish 6. Clare 7. Stoke by Clare parish 8. Wixoe 9. Stradishall 10. Depden 11. Wickambrook 12. Clopton Park Schools 1. IES Breckland 1. Clare Community 2. Clare Community Primary School Primary School 2. Stour Valley Community 3. Stour Valley Community School School 3. Castle Manor Academy 4. Castle Manor Academy and Comms site and Comms site 4. Burton End Primary 5. Burton End Primary Academy Academy 5. Place Farm Primary 6. Place Farm Primary Academy Academy 6. Haverhill Cricket Club 7. Haverhill Cricket Club Red Lodge, Mildenhall, Brandon, Lakenheath, Newmarket Location Current position until Next week – Monday 16 end of week – Friday 13 August 2021 August 2021 Red Lodge Strimming and re-cutting Kentford, Moulton and Mow all areas Gazeley Mildenhall Restart mowing round Beck Row Mow all areas Brandon Restart mowing round Lakenheath Newmarket 1. Newmarket Cemetery, 2. Birdcage Walk, Newmarket Cemetery, 3. High Street verges to south east of town, New Queensberry Road Cheveley Road area 4. King Edward VII Memorial Gardens, Herbicide treatment – base 5. The Severals of Beech hedge, Bury Road 6. St Mary’s Square 7. Studlands Estate - pruning shrubs and pathway clearance Exning Mow all areas Bury St Edmunds and rural villages Location Current position until Next week – Monday 16 end of week – Friday 13 August 2021 August 2021 Zone 1 Nowton Estate 1. Nowton Estate 2. Football pitch marking Zone 2 1. Bury Cemetery 1. Horringer Court estate 2. Horringer and surrounding area 3. Chedburgh 2. Football pitch marking Zone 3 Howard and Mildenhall Football pitch marking Estates. Zone 4 1. The Bartons Football pitch marking 2. Pakenham 3. Ixworth 4. Stanton Parks and green spaces district wide Location Current position until Next week – Monday 16 end of week – Friday 13 August 2021 August 2021 Bury St Edmunds 1. St James Playing Fields 1. Hardwick Heath 2. Hardwick Heath 2. Nowton Park 3. Gainsborough Playing Fields Gazeley Newmarket 1. George Lambton Playing Fields 2. Lady Wolverton Playing Fields Mildenhall Lakenheath Brandon Haverhill and district 1. Haverhill Sports Fields. 1. Haverhill Recreation 2. Great Thurlow Playing Ground Fields 2. Mottsfield 3. Cavendish Wanderers PF 3. Great Thurlow Playing 4. Clare PF Fields 4. Cavendish Wanderers PF 5. Clare PF 6. Football pitch marking at Puddlebrook and Mottsfield Playing Fields Please be aware, all projected mowing for the forthcoming week is subject to the prevailing weather conditions. .
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