South Cliff Gardens has been awarded the coveted Green Flag Award as it is officially recognised as one of the country’s best parks.
In a record-breaking year South Cliff Gardens is celebrating after receiving a Green Flag Award.
The news that South Cliff Gardens has achieved the accreditation - the international quality mark for parks and green spaces - is seen as a testament to the hard work and dedication of the team that care for the green space so that everyone can enjoy it.
Keep Britain Tidy’s Green Flag Award Scheme Manager Paul Todd MBE said:
“I would like to congratulate everyone involved at South Cliff Gardens in achieving a Green Flag Award.
“South Cliff Gardens is a vital green space for the community in Scarborough, bringing people together and providing opportunities to lead healthy lifestyles. The staff and volunteers do so much to ensure that it maintains the high standards of the Green Flag Award and everyone involved should feel extremely proud of their achievement.”
The Green Flag Award scheme, managed by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy under licence from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 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.
Any green space that is freely accessible to the public is eligible to enter for a Green Flag Award. Awards are given on an annual basis and winners must apply each year to renew their Green Flag Award status. A Green Flag Community Award recognises quality sites managed by voluntary and community groups. Green Heritage Site Accreditation is judged on the treatment of the site’s historic features and the standard of conservation.
Carried out over a period of almost two years and funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund’s joint Parks for People programme, the restoration of South Cliff Gardens was successfully completed earlier this year.
The project’s aim was to preserve the gardens’ unique heritage and improve them in a way that will reconnect them with local people and visitors, in the same way that the original gardens did more than one hundred years ago.
The community facility now boasts:
- An innovative new play area, which uses natural materials to blend into the landscape and reflect the gardens’ history
- Construction and resurfacing of an accessible route through the gardens, from north to south, including the reopening of the access tunnel underneath the Spa cliff lift
- Construction of a new operational depot, Beeforth’s Hive, to provide a base for the dedicated gardening team, facilities for volunteer gardeners and to act as a unique community space for local groups
- New information and wayfinding signage to make the site more accessible and easier to
- Planting, biodiversity enhancements and work to open up historical views
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