6-491: Ward End Park is a Green Flag awarded public park located in Ward End , Birmingham . The park covers an area of 54 acres and contains a historic mansion, the 18th century Ward End Park House. Facilities include a fishing and boating lake, a basketball court and a tennis court. This West Midlands location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Green Flag Award The Green Flag Award
12-619: Is an international accreditation given to publicly accessible parks and open spaces, managed under licence from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities , a UK Government department, by Keep Britain Tidy , who also administers the scheme in England . The Green Flag Award was introduced in 1996, and first awarded in 1997, by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) with
18-463: The United States. The owners of spaces that wish to hold the accreditation, pay a fee to be assessed by volunteer judges on an annual basis with a process involving secret shoppers and inspection of both the park and the owner's management plans. The aspects that spaces are judged on are: A failure to meet the judges' standards can result in the accreditation being withdrawn; one example of this
24-507: The awardees, the Green Flag Award is also issued to sites with different uses, such as Loughborough University and Bluewater Shopping Centre , for the management of their grounds. The Green Flag Award is managed under licence from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities , a UK Government department, by Keep Britain Tidy , who also administers the scheme in England and several other countries, including Australia and
30-435: The intention of establishing agreed standards of good management, to help to justify and evaluate funding and to raise park attendance. The scheme was managed by Civic Trust , on MHCLG's behalf, until they lost the contract and the charity went bust in 2009. The scheme has been managed by Keep Britain Tidy since 2012, with sister organisations Keep Scotland Beautiful , Keep Wales Tidy and TIDY Northern Ireland delivering
36-483: The scheme across the UK, and various other bodies delivering worldwide. The scheme's aim is to promote standards of good management and best-practice amongst the green space sector. It is described by its issuers, Keep Britain Tidy, as an "internationally recognised award that is a benchmark for well-managed green space". As of October 2021, 2227 parks and open spaces held a Green Flag Award. While public parks make up most of
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