The saga of the grass on Preesall Close

Once upon a time in Marshside, two different companies had responsibility for cutting the grassed areas - Sefton Council and One Vision Housing.  This may not strike you as a particular issue however problems arise when the two companies involved have different grass cutting standards.  To make matters worse, the areas of grass managed by each company where situated opposite each other which made the difference in performance very very noticeable.

Things came to a head when residents in Preesall Close began to notice that their area of grass always seemed to be a bit longer, had more weeds and most importantly was always covered with grass cuttings whilst the grass verges across the road were almost bowling green quality. But what could be done ?  Requests were made to the Council but the Council were doing their job it was just that they worked to a different (less expensive) criteria than One Vision Housing grass cutting team.

Residents then approached the Lib Dem Team who considered the situation long and hard.  Maybe, they suggested, the grass being cut by  the council was not actually the council's responsibility, maybe the grass on Preesall Close was under the control of One Vision  If this was the case then the grass in question should be maintained and managed by One Vision rather than the Council.  After some consideration One Vision Housing agreed with the suggestion whilst the Council thought it was a marvellous idea and readily agreed.

So the moral of the story - the grass doesn't always have to be greener on the opposite side.