You can apply for assistance if you are:
- Aged 65 or over and are unable to maintain your garden
- Disabled or have a severe health condition and are unable to maintain your garden because of it
In addition to these criteria, there must not be anyone living with you who is physically able to maintain your garden for you, or any family living elsewhere who could reasonably be considered as able to help you maintain your garden.
Ask for help
To ask for assistance with cutting your grass and/or hedges, please email the Tenancy and Estates Team: tenancyandestates@lincoln.gov.uk and provide the following information:
- Your name and address
- Your contact details
- Information about why you need assistance with your garden
The team will assess the information to see if you are eligible for assistance. You will need to provide any information or evidence needed to carry out the assessment.
The service is only to provide grass cutting and/or hedge cutting through the growing season to maintain gardens already in a reasonable condition.
If when you ask us for assistance, your garden is overgrown, untidy or has rubbish in it, it will need to be cleared and brought to a reasonable standard first. You are responsible for that clearance to make it ready to be maintained.
You can either find someone to clear it for you, whether that is one-off help from people you know or paying someone to do it, or you can ask us to do it for you. If you ask us to do it, you will be charged the full cost and a reasonable administration fee to arrange it and invoice you.
You need to carefully consider your options before you ask us to clear it for you, as the cost may be higher than having it done by a charity or private company.
If you are assessed as eligible for assistance, you may still have to wait because there is a very high demand for the service.
If you have to wait for us to help, you are still responsible for maintaining your garden until we can assist and you will need to find temporary help with your garden, such as through a charity or through neighbours, friends or finding a gardening contractor.
We cannot guarantee to offer a place on the scheme to everyone who applies.