Ten sites, including one service charge site, raise the prestigious Green Flag Award after achieving international quality mark for parks and green spaces.
The UK’s premier green space management organisation, the Land Trust, its managing partners and volunteers are celebrating after receiving Green Flag Awards for ten sites across its portfolio.
Eight of the ten sites retained their Green Flag status including:
- Beam Parklands in Barking, Essex – fourteenth year running
- Beaulieu in Essex – third year running
- Countess of Chester Country Park in Cheshire – seventh year running
- Elba Park in Sunderland – twelfth year running
- Greenwich Ecology Park in London (pictured) – twelfth year running
- Hogmoor Inclosure in East Hampshire – second year running
- Silverdale County Park, Newcastle under Lyme – eighth year running
- Wellesley Woodland in Aldershot, Hampshire – third year running
While Fort Burgoyne in Dover and Kiveton Community Woodlands in Sheffield gained its first Green Flag award.
Alan Carter, Chief Executive at the Land Trust said: “We are delighted that ten sites have achieved the accreditation – the international quality mark for parks and green spaces. It is testament to the hard work and dedication of the teams that care for the green spaces so that visitors and residents alike can enjoy them that has gained the site this recognition.”
Keep Britain Tidy’s Green Flag Award Scheme Manager, Paul Todd MBE, said: “I would like to congratulate everyone involved in the management of the ten Land Trust sites on achieving the Green Flag Award.
“All ten sites offer vital green spaces for communities to socialise, enjoy nature, for children to play safely and while providing important opportunities for park users to improve their physical and mental health.
We know that staff and volunteers work tirelessly to ensure that it maintains the high standards of the Green Flag Award, everyone involved should feel extremely proud of their achievement.
It is important that our free to use spaces are maintained to the Green Flag Award standard, making them accessible for all members of the community while ensuring the environment is protected.”The Green Flag Award scheme, managed by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy under licence from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, recognises and rewards well-managed parks and green spaces, setting the benchmark standard for the management of green spaces across the United Kingdom and around the world.
