Green Flag accolade retained

Milnrow Memorial Park

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All the Green Flag sites in the borough have retained the accolade.

The award, the national benchmark for parks, rewards green spaces which meet the gold standard on a range of categories, including facilities, management and community involvement.

The borough’s Green Flag sites are:

• Queen’s Park, Heywood 
• Truffet Park, Langley
• Middleton Cemetery, Boarshaw 
• Hare Hill Park, Littleborough 
• Milnrow Memorial Gardens 
• Broadfield Park 
• Rochdale Memorial Gardens 
• Packer Spout Gardens 

Rochdale Memorial Gardens has recently benefited from improvements to the memorial fountain. The gardens are now looked after under one management plan alongside Packer Spout and the Broadfield Park as Rochdale town centre parks, making it easier to plan events across all three sites.

Truffet Park is a beautiful little pocket park in Langley, Middleton. It packs a lot of facilities in a small space, including a bowling green, play area, flower borders, a sensory garden and a wildlife area.

Milnrow Memorial Park boasts some unusual landscape art in the shape of the Milnrow giant. Friends of Milnrow Memorial Park and Rochdale Council are currently working together to get a new skatepark installed using external grants.

Hare Hill Park is a Victorian treasure in Littleborough with a classic bandstand and beautiful views across the Pennines.

Middleton Cemetery marked its centenary last year and recently benefitted from an extension proving new burial space, pathways and car parking.

Heywood’s regally named Queen’s Park combines the old and new with a host of heritage features and a BMX bike track, which is used by local BMX club the Roch Valley Raiders.

Councillor Jacqui Beswick, Cabinet Member for Place and Regulation at Rochdale Borough Council, said: “Our beautiful green spaces are a real selling point for your borough and I’m pleased that Keep Britain Tidy think so too.

"We have a fantastic friends network o the borough and we wouldn’t have been able to retain our green flags without their tireless support.”