Weed-choked pavements anger residents as ‘rewilding’ divides UK towns and cities

Councils are letting grass and weeds grow to increase urban biodiversity. But many people are unhappy with the result

Brighton is home to the UK's only Green member of parliament and is outwardly a bastion of progressive politics. Wild spaces here are not only the rolling hills of East Sussex or the beachfront but the smaller, often overlooked, green areas within residential neighbourhoods.

These untamed enclaves are full of nature's drama, but another kind of drama is playing out among residents who feel that rewilding in the city's backyard has gone too far.