Horsham has created greenways https://www.horshamgreenspaces.org/wildways with wildflowers, as well as grass cutting plans that encourage this.

See this trail. https://www.horshamgreenspaces.org/trailparkharwood

Here’s a quick, practical summary of what Horsham has done with its Wildways:

• Defined a town-wide nature-recovery network. Wildways are planned wildlife corridors (including long grass, scrub, woodland, watercourses, and ditches) that link parks, schools, parish land, private gardens, and highway verges, allowing species to move across the district. (Horsham District Council)
• Changed mowing on council land. Selected areas in parks and open spaces are cut less frequently, so soil fertility drops and wildflowers out-compete grass; access paths are mown through longer areas. This is now in year two on HDC sites. (Horsham District Council)
• Mapped priority routes (“Horsham Town Wildways”). The Horsham Green Spaces Forum mapped 7 high-level Wildways and completed habitat assessments; some of these areas sit within HDC’s three-year mowing-regime trial. (Horsham Green Spaces)
• Co-ordinated with wider partners. The project sits under the Wilder Horsham District programme with Sussex Wildlife Trust and ties into the regional “Weald to Waves” effort. (Horsham District Council)
• Embedded in council strategy & governance. Wildways are referenced in HDC’s 2024–29 Greenspaces Strategy and are a regular agenda item for the Climate Action & Nature Recovery Advisory Group. (horsham.moderngov.co.uk)
• Scale to date (illustrative). Public updates indicate double-digit hectares of district land managed as Wildways, alongside work with dozens of external landowners via Wilder Horsham District. (Facebook)

If you want, I can pull out specific Horsham sites (e.g., Horsham Park, Billingshurst Bypass, Tanbridge Park) and the exact mowing approach they use at each. (Horsham District Council)