As a District Council, South Hams currently manages about 50 hectares of green space, which is cut every couple of weeks. 

Our target is to increase biodiversity on the land we manage by at least 10% by 2025. To help us achieve this goal, we're considering enabling rewilding on the areas of land that do not need to be kept short. Find out more.

Now we need to know what you think of this idea. Please complete our short survey to share your views by 5 August 2021.

We are proposing to change our land management practice on some of the land we manage to help restore and create more biodiverse sites and support the recovery of nature. It is likely this is achievable on about one third of the land we manage.

Watch our Senior Specialist Rob Sekula explain what this might mean.