Award winning spaces

2023


Silverdale Country Park Wins Green Flag Award 2021-2022

Silverdale Country Park in Newcastle under Lyme has won a Green Flag Award 2021-2022

Along with Countess of Chester Country Park in Chester, Elba Park in Sunderland, Wellesley Woodlands in Aldershot,Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park in Greenwich, Beam Parklands in Dagenham, plus Beaulieu, a vibrant new development in Chelmsford, Essex have all be accredited with the international quality mark for parks and green spaces.

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2022


Countess of Chester Country Park Wins Green Flag Award 2021-2022

The Countess of Chester Country Park in Cheshire has won a Green Flag Award 2021-2022

Along with Elba Park in Sunderland, Wellesley Woodlands in Aldershot, Silverdale in Newcastle under Lyme, Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park in Greenwich, Beam Parklands in Dagenham, plus Beaulieu, a vibrant new development in Chelmsford, Essex have all be accredited with the international quality mark for parks and green spaces.

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2021


Silverdale Country Park has received several awards since opening in 2011 as listed below

Each award is recognition of the efforts of Groundwork West Midlands and the Land Trust but most importantly the involvement of visitors, community groups and educational groups nearby so the awards are shared with them via notice boards, social media and newsletters;

  • ‘Most Improved Space’ 2013 Land Trust
  • ‘Site of the Year’ 2014 Land Trust
  • Britain in Bloom ‘Discretionary Environmental Award’ 2015 & 2019
  • ‘Community Space of the Year’ 2015 Land Trust
  •  ‘Alf Martin’ Award 2015 ‘outstanding service to natural history’
  • ‘Developing Space for Nature’ 2016 Land Trust
  • ‘Community Space of the Year’ 2017 Land Trust
  • ‘Green Flag’ Award 2017, 2018 & 2019
  • ‘Britain in Bloom’ Gold Award 2017, 2018 & 2019 – parks category
  • ‘Ranger of the Year’ 2018 Land Trust
  • ‘Highly commended Nature Space of 2019’ Land Trust

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2018


Countess of Chester Country Park awarded Green Flag status

Countess of Chester Country Park has been recognised with a prestigious Green Flag award.

The site in Upton in Chester joins Silverdale Country Park in Newcastle under Lyme, Elba Park in Sunderland, Beam Parklands in Dagenham and Greenwich Ecology Park in London on the list of Land Trust sites recognised by Green Flag.

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Countess of Chester Country Park

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2017


Port Sunlight River Park shortlisted for a Landscape Institute Award

Port Sunlight River Park has been shortlisted for a Landscape Institute Award in the category of Adding Value through Landscape. The award recognises projects where landscape design has been the driver of improved cultural, social, economic or learning benefits to a community or business.

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Port Sunlight River Park

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Beam Parklands retains Green Flag status

Beam Parklands holds a Green Flag Award.

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Beam Parklands

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Countess of Chester Country Park shortlisted at the Charity Times Awards

Countess of Chester Country Park was shortlisted in the Cross-sector Partnership of the Year category at the Charity Times Awards.

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Countess of Chester Country Park

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Elba Park retains Green Flag status

Elba Park holds a Green Flag Award.

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Elba Park

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Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park retains Green Flag status

Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park holds a Green Flag Award.

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Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park

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Port Sunlight River Park shortlisted at the Charity Times Awards

Port Sunlight River Park was shortlisted in the Community Award category at the Charity Times Awards.

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Countess of Chester Country Park wins at Horticulture Week Custodian Awards

Countess of Chester Country Park won the Best Community Health Initiative category at the Horticulture Week Custodian Awards.

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Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park shortlisted at Horticulture Week Custodian Awards

Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park was shortlisted in the Best Urban Park category at the Horticulture Week Custodian Awards.

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Northumberlandia wins at Horticulture Week Custodian Awards

Northumberlandia won the Best Parks Partnership – Third Sector category at the Horticulture Week Custodian Awards.

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Northumberlandia

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Northumberlandia wins at Northumberland Tourism Awards

Northumberlandia won the Family Day Out category at the Northumberland Tourism Awards, as voted for by readers of the Northumberland Gazette and sister papers.

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Northumberlandia

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Land Trust Residential Services wins Newcomer of the Year at RESI Awards

Land Trust Residential Services owns and manages green spaces within and around housing developments through residential service charge agreements, ensuring everything from natural corridors and sustainable drainage solutions, to play areas and natural community amenities are effectively and sustainably maintained and enhanced, helping protect the value of the homes and create places people want to live work and play.

The RESI Awards, held by Property Week magazine, aim to identify the best firms or individuals who had a transformative 2016 in the residential sector.

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Upton

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The Land Trust shortlisted for Healthcare Transformation Awards

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with the Land Trust have been shortlisted in the category of Improving Patient and Community Engagement at the Healthcare Transformation Awards.

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Countess of Chester Country Park

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Port Sunlight River Park shortlisted at the Echo Environment Awards

Port Sunlight River Park was shortlisted in the Environmental and Health Project category at the Echo Environment Awards.

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Canvey Wick Nature Reserve shortlisted in BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards

Canvey Wick Nature Reserve was shortlisted in the Nature Reserve of the Year category at the BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards. The nomination was made by Brett Westwood, naturalist and BBC Radio 4 presenter.

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Canvey Wick

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Port Sunlight River Park shortlisted for Wirral Tourism Awards

The much-loved community park in Port Sunlight Village was shortlisted in the Hidden Gem category at the Wirral Tourism Awards.

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2016


Port Sunlight River Park wins Community Engagement accolade at 3rd Sector Care Awards

Port Sunlight River Park has picked up the Community Engagement accolade at the 3rd Sector Care Awards in recognition of how the management team use the park to benefit thousands of people each year.

The Bromborough park, opened in autumn 2014, is owned by national land management charity the Land Trust and managed by Autism Together, with the brief to create an inclusive space that offers a variety of opportunities for its service users, as well as local residents and visitors.

Combining Autism Together’s remit of supporting people with autism and their families, and the Land Trust’s charitable aims around health, education and community cohesion, Ranger Anne Litherland and many volunteers have worked hard to exceed expectations.

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Port Sunlight River Park

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Business Green Leaders Awards – Nomination, April 2016

The Land Trust has made the shortlist for the Business Green Leaders Awards for its work on Port Sunlight River Park.

The site has been shortlisted in the Ecosystem Project of the Year category.

The BusinessGreen Leaders Awards bring together over 600 executives, entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and campaigners to celebrate the green economy’s most exciting and innovative achievements from the past 12 months.

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Port Sunlight River Park

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Echo Environment Awards – Community Project of the Year, April 2016

The Land Trust’s Green Angels programme receives success at the Echo Environment Awards, winning ‘Community Project of the Year’ award.

The green-focused awards, organised by the Liverpool Echo in association with United Utilities, have been established to recognise the best environmental businesses, schools, community, projects and individuals.

Green Angels, was a Big Lottery-funded programme, delivered the Land Trust to boost the quality of life for local peoples by providing environmental training opportunities and community events in and around Liverpool Festival Garden.

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Port Sunlight River Park

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Echo Environment Awards – Shortlisted for Neighbourhood Improvement Project Award, April 2016

Port Sunlight River Park was shortlisted for the Echo Environment ‘Neighbourhood Improvement Project Award’.

The green-focused awards, organised by the Liverpool Echo in association with United Utilities, have been established to recognise the best environmental businesses, schools, community, projects and individuals.

Previously a landfill site hemmed off from the community, the site was transformed and opened to the public in 2014 by the Land Trust. The park has since gone from strength to strength, becoming a popular destination for residents and visitors and haven for wildlife, managed by Autism Together on behalf of the Land Trust.

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Port Sunlight River Park

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Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) North West Award - Highly Commended Award, April 2016

Port Sunlight River Park received ‘Highly Commended’ in the North West ‘Regeneration’ category of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Awards 2016, which is the category showcasing “exceptional improvements to urban, rural and coastal areas”.

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2015


Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management Award - July 2015

The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) is the leading professional membership body representing and supporting ecologists and environmental managers. Its award scheme is all about recognising positive environmental and conservation impacts across the country.

The Countess of Chester County Park was honoured with a Highly Commended NGO (Non-governmental organisation) Impact prize at the recent Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM).

Since being opened to the public by the Duchess of Cornwall last September, the Upton-based site, next to the Countess of Chester Hospital, has already proved popular with residents, visitors, staff members and users of the hospitals.

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Northumberland What's On Where (WOW) Awards - March 2015

Northumberlandia was named the Best Park/Community Area at Northumberland’s What’s on Where Awards 2015.

The awards scheme, organised by Johnston Press North East newspaper group, is a celebration of Northumberland’s leisure and tourism.

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Northumberlandia

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Staffordshire Country Council: Site of Biological Importance (SBI) - March 2015

A Site of Biological Importance (or SBI) is one of the non-statutory designations used locally by the Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Staffordshire County Councils in England to protect locally valued sites of biological diversity which are described generally as Local Wildlife Sites by the UK Government.

A section of Silverdale Country Park in Newcastle-Under-Lyme has been designated as a Site of Biological Importance (SBI).

The popular community venue, owned by open space management charity the Land Trust and managed by Groundwork West Midlands, was created on the former Silverdale Colliery as part of a restoration project funded by the Homes and Communities Agency.

Since being opened to the public, the site has provided a home for skylarks in spring time, a place for newts to flourish in the park’s pond and somewhere nationally scarce solitary bees and wasps have been sighted.

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Chester Civic Trust New Years Honours - January 2015

The Countess of Chester Country Park was honoured with a Chester Civic Trust award for benefiting the built environment.

The Chester Civic Trust selected the public park as a benefactor of the Civic Trust’s awards scheme recognising changes to the built environment during the past 12 months.

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2011


English Heritage Angel Award - November 2011

The historic Pleasley Pit was awarded an English Heritage Angel Award in November 2011, highlighting the Derbyshire site as the finest restored industrial building in the country.

The awards, which were launched and part funded by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber are probably the country’s most important heritage prize, they celebrate the work of individuals and groups who have saved a significant historic place that was at risk of being lost forever.

The award is deserved recognition for The Pleasley Pit Trust, who have worked tirelessly for over fifteen years on the restoration of the former colliery.

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Pleasley

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Brownfield Briefing Award, Best Use of Brownfield Land - October 2011

Beam Parklands in Dagenham has been recognised as the country’s top Brownfield site with a prestigious Brownfield Briefing award for the ‘Best Use of Landfill Or Brownfield Land’ in October 2011.

The judges at the Brownfield Briefing Awards recognised that the benefits delivered by Beam Parklands show clearly that the best use of Brownfield land does not necessarily mean development. What makes this wetland park special is that its primary function is as a flood defence and as such the land protects 570 residential properties, two primary schools, three social clubs and 63 industrial and commercial properties on its doorstep and downstream. However when it’s not flooded, which is the vast majority of the year, it is now a multifunctional open space that the community can use and where nature can thrive.

The Brownfield Briefing Awards have become the flagship event for the brownfield community, and is one of the highest industry accolades that a company can receive. The annual awards recognise technical and conceptual excellence in projects that have been underway over the past 12 months.

The awards are judged by an expert panel from numerous specialities, and new categories are added each year to reflect trends and developments in the industry.

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Beam Parklands

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Doncaster Environment Award - August 2011

Emily Holmes, the Community Ranger at Bentley Community Woodland, won a Doncaster Environment Award as the individual who has contributed most to improving and protecting her local environment.

Emily is one of a team of Forestry Commission rangers working work on six community woodlands in South Yorkshire with the support of the Land Trust. Emily works predominately at Bentley Community Woodland.

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Bentley Community Woodland

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CIWEM Living Wetlands Award - July 2011

Each year, CIWEM’s diverse range of awards honour projects and people making outstanding contributions to environmental management, whilst the Young Members’ Award gives us a glimpse into the future of the profession.

Beam Parklands was recognised as a multi-functional project that demonstrates the sustainable use of wetland habitats by CIWEM’s Living Wetlands Award in July 2011.

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Beam Parklands

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Green Flag Award - July 2011

The Green Flag Award® Scheme recognises and rewards the best green spaces.

Weetslade Country Park, just north of Gosforth Park, is one of the best in the country – officially recognised by a Green Flag Award in July 2011.

Remarkably only five years go the park was a derelict pit tip on the former Weetslade Colliery. Last week the park received the Green Flag Award, a sign to visitors that the park is well-maintained and well-managed, with excellent facilities.

Weetslade Country Park is managed by the wildlife charity and its team of volunteers on behalf of the Land Trust. Developed on the former pit heap of Weetslade Colliery, the shallow sloping sides of the hill contain areas of grassland, scrub and woodland. At the foot of the slopes to the west side of the site there are three developing reed beds, home to many common damselflies and dragonflies. Many birds are present on the site such as grey partridge, meadow pipit and skylark.

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BTO-EDF Community Land Management Award - March 2011

The Avenue Washlands Nature Reserve received a top award from the British Trust for Ornithology in March 2011.

The nature reserve has been awarded first prize in the Community Category for Land Management sites in the BTO-EDF Energy Business Birds Challenge 2010, which aims to find the best business sites for birds, conservation and people in the UK

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Avenue Washlands Nature Reserve

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