A Marlow environmentalist says a new grass cutting method – which encourages growth of wild flowers - has been a success despite a number of complaints over recent weeks.

Marlow Town Council has announced grass cutting at Seymour Park Recreation Ground would return to normal this week, following a raft of complaints about overgrown grass.

The came after the council decided to trial a new grass cutting scheme together with Transition Town Marlow (TTM) which allowed grass and wild flowers to grow while still maintaining public access.

However a large section of grass and wild flowers in the park will still be allowed to grow.

Liz Lorente, from TTM said: “It’s fine, I think the reason it has happened is teething troubles with the new contractors. They are doing a great job but it takes time to enforce plus people don’t like change.

“They are going to leave a very large section of wild flowers in the park. I went up there this morning and there are quite a few wild flowers growing in the park. There will still be more wild flowers than there were before.

“We wanted to see how it would work out. We never wanted to stop it working as a recreation ground.

“I have had some very positive reviews from people saying they like the long grass but the people complaining have phoned the council.”

TTM have been encouraging the growth of wild flowers around the area, including on grass verges, due to the loss of 97 percent of wild flower meadows in the UK since world war two.