Felixstowe Seafront Garden receive prestigious Green Flag Award after achieving international quality mark for parks and green spaces.
The site is one of 2,250 in the UK to achieve the award, which is the international quality mark for parks and green spaces.
The news that the Felixstowe Seafront Gardens have met the standards required for the accreditation is testament to the hard work and dedication of the team that care for the green space so that visitors and residents alike can enjoy it.
Green Flag Award Scheme Manager, Paul Todd MBE, said:
“Congratulations to everyone involved in the upkeep of Felixstowe Seafront Gardens who have worked tirelessly to ensure that it achieves the high standards required for the Green Flag Award.
“Quality parks and green spaces like the Felixstowe Seafront Gardens make the country a heathier place to live and work in, and a stronger place in which to invest.
“Crucially, the Felixstowe Seafront Gardens are a vital green space for communities in Felixstowe to enjoy nature, and during the ongoing cost of living crisis it is a free and safe space for families to socialise. It also provides important opportunities for local people and visitors to reap the physical and mental health benefits of green space.”
The Mayor of Felixstowe, Cllr Corrine Franklin, said:
“Felixstowe can be immensely proud of its Seafront Gardens, which have been awarded a Green Flag for the 10th year running. Whatever the season of the year, there is always life and colour to be found there.
The beauty of our Seafront Gardens is down to the hard work of the staff at East Suffolk Services, and to the Friends of Felixstowe Seafront Gardens, who spend many hours maintaining the flower beds and shrubs, as well as the attentive care of Mr London who looks after the Arch Cascade Pond“.
The Green Flag Award scheme, managed by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy under licence from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, 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.