Kildare parks win Green Flag Awards
Newbridge Linear Park has been awarded a Green Flag
Both Newbridge Linear Park and the Zero Waste Community Park in Rathcoffey were awarded green flags in An Taisce’s 2024 Green Flag Awards, announced in early November.
The international Green Flag Award was awarded to 120 parks, gardens, greenways and wildlife sanctuaries around the country, and acknowledges excellence in the management of those green spaces which are freely open to the public.
The Green Flag Award operates in 19 countries and is the international quality benchmark for the public green space sector. Running for over 25 years, the programme uses eight key criteria, with an emphasis on environmental management, for its assessment. All sites implement a management framework, and then undergo an annual inspection conducted by qualified judges. In Ireland, An Taisce Environmental Education is the national operator, and has delivered the Green Flag Award since 2016.
Both sites are managed by two very dedicated and committed community groups. Newbridge Linear Park is managed and maintained by Newbridge Tidy Towns and has held the green flag for nine years in a row, and the Zero Waste Garden, maintained by the Zero Waste Garden Committee, has held theirs for five years in a row.
