Grave-digging work

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1.1 Powys County Council's (The Council) Highways, Grounds and Street Services (HGSS) are responsible for the management of grounds maintenance, grass cutting and additional associated activities on trunk roads, county and rural roads and within urban areas in the County of Powys. It is also responsible for cemetery works (grave digging and grass cutting). 1.2 The Council currently maintains the following: — 153 hectares of municipal grass areas across Powys which includes play areas, housing estates, libraries, etc., which are normally cut 10 times during the year; — 19 cemeteries which are cut 14 times; — 96 hectares of County Urban verges in towns and villages which are normally cut 3 times during the year; — 4 hectares of shrub bed maintenance; — Over 4600 km's of County Rural highway verges; — 134 Roadside Verge Nature Reserves (RVNR's); and 1.3 The service is currently delivered through a mix of the internal service and external contractors and the service is usually delivered between April and October each year. 1.4 The Council is currently reviewing how the Urban / County Road and Municipal Grass Cutting is delivered and elements of this service may be subject to a transfer to Town Councils who will then become responsible for managing these services.