Green Flag international Award Requirements

Green Flag Award Requirements
SECTION 1: A WELCOMING PLACE
This section recognizes the culmination of everything done well. A welcoming place is one that invites and draws people into it. This means creating a space which, through its visual appearance, range of facilities, standards of maintenance and ease of access, makes people feel that they are in a cared-for place.

Welcome
Good and Safe Access
Signage
Equal Access for All
SECTION 2: HEALTHY, SAFE AND SECURE
This section looks at how well managers understand their users’ needs, encouraging them to enjoy healthy activities using appropriate, safe-to-use facilities and activities, and to feel personally safe and secure.

Appropriate Provision of Quality Facilities and Activities
Safe Equipment and Facilities
Personal Security
Control of Dogs/Dog Fouling
SECTION 3: WELL MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
For aesthetic as well as health and safety reasons, issues of cleanliness and
maintenance must be addressed, in particular:
+ litter and other waste management issues must be adequately dealt with;
+ grounds, buildings, equipment and other features must be well maintained;
+ policies on litter, vandalism and maintenance should be in place, in practice, and regularly reviewed.
Litter and Waste Management
Horticultural Maintenance
Arboricultural Maintenance
Building and Infrastructure Maintenance
Equipment Maintenance
SECTION 4: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
This section seeks to ensure that the way the site is managed has a positive impact on the environment, locally and globally, both now and for the future. Where choices can be made for future procurement, landscaping or buildings, they should aim to minimise energy and resource consumption and waste, and design in benefits to the local and global environment. Policies should seek to eliminate the use of peat and chemicals to control pests and as fertilizers. Horticultural and arboricultural decisions should reflect
Managing Environmental Impact
Waste Minimizations
Chemical Use
Peat Use
Climate Change Adaption Strategies
SECTION 5: BIODIVERSITY, LANDSCAPE AND HERITAGE
Attention should be paid to the appropriate management and conservation of natural
features, wildlife and flora; landscape features; and buildings and structures. Their particular character and requirements should be identified and appropriate management strategies put in place to conserve and enhance them.
Management of Natural Features, Wild Fauna and Flora
Conservation of Landscape Features
Conservation of Buildings and Structures
SECTION 6: COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
This section examines the extent to which the managing organisation:
+ understands the community it seeks to serve;

+ actively and appropriately involves members of the community in making decisions about the site’s development;

+ provides opportunities for active participation in site projects; and

+ ensures that there is appropriate provision of recreational facilities

In addition to other requirements