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 2008, there were 743 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, then they make a visit to the site. The park or green space is judged against eight criteria.

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 reapply 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, 2007 and again in 2008.

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.

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.

Lynn Stevens, Parks Officer said:  "Our parks and open spaces are really important to us and we are so pleased with achieving all Green Flag Awards for all three 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".

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".

Further Information

For further information about the standards for our parks contact:

Client Services
Wychavon District Council
Telephone 01386 565018 - between 9am-5pm, Monday - Friday
Email client.services@wychavon.gov.uk

Or visit the Green Flag Award website.