Concrete is not a habitat. Free council email template
Not sure what to say to your council about pollinators? Here is a free template to get you started.
Urban pollinators are running out of food in our towns and cities. The parks, verges and green spaces around us are managed in ways that leave almost nothing in flower from one end of the season to the other.
The people responsible for that are your local council. And you are allowed to write to them about it.
This free email template gives you everything you need to make that first contact: a complete, friendly, evidence-aware letter asking for three specific, achievable changes to local green space management.
It takes five minutes to personalise and five more to send.
Enter your email and receive the template immediately. You will also receive a short series of emails with further information about urban pollinator science and how to take your advocacy further if you choose to.
What is Inside?
A complete, ready-to-send email
The structure, tone, and content are already written. You fill in your name and location, read it through once, and send it. No blank page, no guessing.
Three specific, polite requests
The template asks your council to consider extending mowing intervals, reviewing pesticide use on amenity land and including more native planting in their schemes. Each request is realistic, constructive and within the council's authority to deliver.
A starting point, not a ceiling
If you want to follow up with stronger evidence, more formal language, or a structured record of local observations, the full toolkit has everything you need for that. But this template is a genuine, useful first step on its own.
Want to go further when you are ready?
The full Concrete is Not a Habitat: Urban Pollinator Toolkit includes a structured observation checklist so you can document what you see in your local green spaces before you write, 3+1 additional email templates for follow-up and formal escalation and a science and policy background guide so your correspondence carries real evidential weight.
Why I made the free template?
I found a dead bumblebee queen on a road. She had been scanning the urban landscape for pollen and found nothing within flying range. She starved.
That experience made me want to build something useful rather than just being angry. The free template is the smallest version of that something. One letter. One council. One small signal that someone in your town is paying attention.
It is enough to start with.
One email to your council can shift policy.
Small steps shape systems.
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