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Green flag awards

Green Flag Award Logo Westminster’s Parks Service has been awarded thirteen green flag awards for 2008

Westminster Parks Service is please to confirm that we have been awarded thirteen Green Flags for 2008/09. It is especially pleasing to have gained another Green Flag for a cemetery. Mill Hill Cemetery now joins East Finchley Cemetery as one of only a few cemeteries that have so far been awarded one.

For a site to be awarded a green flag the site must have a detailed management plan. To view the management plans for each of our green flag sites please click on the link shown below.

  1. Mount Street Gardens
  2. Paddington Recreation Grounds
  3. Paddington Street Gardens
  4. Porchester Square
  5. Queens Park Gardens
  6. Rembrandt Gardens
  7. St. Anne's Churchyard
  8. St. Georges Square
  9. St. Johns Garden (Horesferry Road)
  10. St. Johns Wood Church Grounds
  11. Victoria Embankment Gardens
  12. East Finchley Cemetery
  13. Mill Hill Cemetery

What are the Green Flag Awards?

The Green Flag Award Scheme is run by The Civic Trust and is intended to be the benchmark against which the quality of public parks and green spaces can be measured. It also recognises the diversity and value of green space to the local community.

The Park, Garden or Green Space is judged against 8 criteria which cover everything from access through to sustainability and marketing. Listed below are the eight assessment criteria:

  1. A welcoming place - how to create a sense that people are positively welcomed in the park
  2. Healthy, safe & secure - how best to ensure that the park is a safe & healthy environment for all users
  3. Clean & well maintained - what people can expect in terms of cleanliness, facilities & maintenance
  4. Sustainability - how a park can be managed in environmentally sensitive ways
  5. Conservation & heritage - the value of conservation & care of historical heritage
  6. Community involvement - ways of encouraging community participation and acknowledging the community's role in a park's success
  7. Marketing - methods of promoting a park successfully
  8. Management - how to reflect all of the above in a coherent & accessible management plan or strategy and ensure it is implemented

To see a more detailed description of the standards and how we meet them, you can click on this link: How We Meet the Standards.

If you wish to find out more you can visit the Green Flag Awards web site.