South Lakeland About Us Grass Maintenance Bowness, Windermere and Ambleside Grange, Flookburgh and Allithwaite Priority areas – play areas, parks and sheltered housing Kendal Rural – Staveley, Dent and Kirkby Lonsdale Ulverston Horticultural Maintenance Flower & Shrub Bed Displays Bowness, Windermere and Ambleside Grange, Flookburgh and Allithwaite Kendal Ulverston, Urswick and Broughton Hedges Cleansing Hedge cutting takes place from September to November, to avoid the bird nesting season. The vast majority of hedges are cut using mechanical hand tools although some of the larger rural ones are cut using tractor mounted equipment.