Green Flag Award Scheme For Parks & Green Spaces
The Green Flag Awards Scheme was launched in 1996 and gave its
first awards in 1997.
In 2011, there were 1136 parks judged to be of a high
enough standard to fly the flag.
There are two stages to the judgement process. Firstly, the
judges assess the management plan which has been prepared by the
Parks Officer and team and then they make a visit to the site.
The park or green space is judged against eight criteria.
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- Conservation and Heritage
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- Clean and well maintained
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If the site receives a high enough score against the eight
criteria it receives a flag and a certificate to display on site.
The award is valid for one year only and if a
park/green space is to maintain its green flag it must re-apply
annually.
We applied for the first time in 2005, and were successful with
a Green Flag for Abbey Park, Evesham. We also kept the award
for this park in 2006/7, 2007/8, 2008/9 2009/10, 2010/11 and
again 2011/12.
In 2007 we applied for Workman Gardens, Evesham for the first
time and were successful and have kept the award for these gardens
in 2008/9, 2009/10, 2010/11, and 2011/12.
Also in 2008 we applied for Abbey Park, Pershore for the first
time and were successful bringing us a trio of Green Flags in
2008/9, 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2011/12.
A fourth Green Flag Award has been achieved in 2011/12 for a
combined Lido Park and St Peters Fields in Droitwich Spa.
Lynn Stevens, Parks Officer said: "Our parks and open
spaces are really important to us and we are so pleased with
achieving Green Flag Awards for all 4 of our
entries this year. It recognises the hard work of our
team, but also shows visitors to our parks that we have high
standards. We now have award winning parks in all three of
Wychavon's market towns".
She added: "Our work never stands still, all the time we
try to get better and better and we will continue to work hard to
increase the standards in all our parks".
Visit the Green Flag Award
website.
Further Information
For further information about the standards of our parks
contact:
Client Services
Wychavon District Council
Telephone 01386 565018 - between 9am-5pm, Monday - Friday
Email client.services@wychavon.gov.uk
