MS supports council’s commitment to biodiversity

Mr Rowlands, shadow minister for local government, has congratulated local people in Ruthin and Denbigh for rolling up their sleeves and bringing blooms of colour to the area.

He said: “I am delighted to see so many volunteers stepping up to help prepare for the new season of the council’s Wildflower Meadows project.

“Local authorities have a responsibility to put a plan in place to enhance its biodiversity and it is great to see communities getting involved.

“DCC has nearly 60 areas including highway verges, footpath edges, cycle ways and amenity grasslands, which are being managed to create wildflower meadows.

"As well as protecting wildflowers the meadows are also supporting the welfare of native insects to the Denbighshire area.

“It is absolutely vital projects like these continue to help preserve native flowers and insects.”

Following the council’s declaration of a climate and ecological emergency in 2019, this project is part of an ongoing commitment to enhancing biodiversity across the county.

Ruthin’s Friends of the Earth volunteer group helped plant up thousands of wildflower plants on a large road verge at Glasdir. Cutting on the road verge had previously been changed to encourage wildflowers but it was decided an extra boost of colour would benefit the site.

In Denbigh, local ward members, Councillors Mark Young and Rhys Thomas, along with members of the local Denbigh Rotary Club, and volunteers from the community, gathered together to plant wildflowers on areas of Lon Tywysog and Crud-Y-Castell green spaces within Denbigh to give them a seasonal boost.

To find out more about the wildflower meadows across Denbighshire visit https://www.denbighshire.gov.uk/en/environmental-health/climate-and-ecological-change/wildflower-meadow-project.aspx