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Rouken Glen Park success in national poll
Green Flag for parks winner Rouken Glen has been voted runner up in the People’s
Choice online vote.
The independent charity Keep Scotland Beautiful announced in July that a recordbreaking 51 parks and green spaces in Scotland had been awarded the coveted
Green Flag – and following a UK wide public vote, Rouken Glen park in East
Renfrewshire scooped 3rd place in Scotland.
All Green Flag Award-winning parks and green spaces were entered into the annual
online People’s Choice Award vote, which saw thousands of votes recorded for
almost 1,500 parks across the UK.
The top three Scottish People’s Choice parks were:
1st Strathaven Park, South Lanarkshire Council
2nd Roslin Glen, Midlothian Council
3rd Rouken Glen, East Renfrewshire Council
Keep Scotland Beautiful manages the award in Scotland and Carole Noble, Head of
Environmental Services said:
"We are delighted to announce that Midlothian Council’s Roslin Glen was runner up
in the recent People’s Choice award.
This is a massive achievement and
congratulations must also go to the managers, staff and visitors of all the top three
‘People’s Choice’ parks in Scotland”.
East Renfrewshire Council’s Convener for Environment, Councillor Vincent Waters
explained, “Rouken Glen Park has a well-established history as a popular, outdoors,
recreational, visitor hot spot dating back the Edwardian and Victorian eras. A
combination of the park’s natural beauty, stunning waterfall, glorious glen walk and
the geological and archaeological significance, plus as a Site of Specific Scientific
Interest (SSSI), all lends itself to the park’s popularity. On behalf of all of our hard
working Parks Department, we are all very proud of this achievement.”
The Green Flag Award for parks is the national standard for parks and recognises
well managed, high quality sites with community involvement.
The Green Flag Award scheme is licensed to Keep Britain Tidy, from the Department
for Communities and Local Government, and managed across the UK in partnership
with Keep Scotland Beautiful, Keep Wales Tidy and Tidy Northern Ireland, the
Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens and the National Housing
Federation.
ENDS
Notes to editors
1. Keep Scotland Beautiful is the independent charity which campaigns, acts
and educates on a range of local, national and global environmental issues
which affect people’s quality of life. It is committed to making Scotland clean
and
green,
today
and
tomorrow.
Further
details
from
www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org
2. Keep Scotland Beautiful administers the Green Flags for Parks scheme in
Scotland, and the list of Green Flag accredited parks is available at
www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/parks
3. Media enquiries: Peter Duncan on 07740 469949, or Andy Maciver on 07855
261244.