“No mow May” was “no mow 2022” for us I think. Certainly I don’t recall getting the mower out of the shed*. I think maybe our resident gardener gave it a one-two with a strimmer in late summer, perhaps.
It seems mostly self-regulating these days. Okay it won’t win any awards for tidiest lawn, but it houses quite a lot of different wildlife, and isn’t a thigh-high jungle, so it’s fine.
It’d be interesting (and quite progressive) if SCC do indeed introduce such a council tax reduction. I’m not sure how you’d police it — it’s easy enough to check whether the garden is paved or not I suppose, but the rest is going to be an exercise in trust you’d imagine.
* an event involving such quantity of fruity language, alarming crashes, and protracted wrestling with allegedly inanimate objects, as to be worthy of easy recall for quite some time