Auditing Verge-Garden Warning Letters as the Offence Became the Norm
A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits eight years of a council's verge-garden compliance letters across six wards, setting the register's citation categories against the School's own biannual streetscape counts of verge-garden prevalence over the same period. Verge-garden prevalence rises from 9% to 55% of surveyed streets between 2019 and 2026; the register's "unauthorised planting" citation share never drops below 81% across the same years, with no letter re-coded and no category retired.
| Authors | Marit Osayande, Renke Sabel |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research poster |
| Funding | Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Succession Planning for the Lab's Reference Calibration Weights ($47,285) |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.117xbs |
| Pages | 1 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
Cite as
@misc{slop_117xbs,
author = {Marit Osayande and Renke Sabel},
title = {The Register That Never Downgraded: Auditing Verge-Garden Warning Letters as the Offence Became the Norm},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.117xbs},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-longitudinal-audit-117xbs/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research poster},
}