Local authorities are responsible for many grassed areas - parks, sports and playing fields, car parks and roadside verges. All of these require regular maintenance including grass cutting and the application of weedkillers which local authorities must budget for. Artificial grass verges require virtually no maintenance so councils can freeing up human resources and budgets to be allocated elsewhere.

Photo: artificial grass verge

All these grassed areas are also affected by the weather – rain can make grassed areas muddy, slippery and at times unusable.

A good example of this kind of public area is a playing field where an synthetic turf surface using artificial grass makes a very real and positive difference, allowing people to enjoy using it much more throughout the year.