{"id":7426,"date":"2019-09-04T13:12:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T12:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visionrcl.org.uk\/?p=7426"},"modified":"2023-06-28T09:42:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T08:42:12","slug":"vote-for-your-favourite-park-in-peoples-choice-award-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/vote-for-your-favourite-park-in-peoples-choice-award-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for your favourite park in the People&#8217;s Choice Award 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Residents now have the chance to vote for their favourite Green Flag flying park in Redbridge as part of the People\u2019s Choice 2019 awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keepbritaintidy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keep Britain Tidy<\/a>, the prestigious poll finds the nation\u2019s top 10 parks from almost 2,000 awarded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenflagaward.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Flag Award<\/a> status by the environment charity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July, nine Redbridge parks and open spaces were again named as some of the best in the world after successfully retaining their coveted Green Flag award for another year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Valentines Park<\/li><li>Clayhall Park<\/li><li>Claybury Wood<\/li><li>Elmhurst Gardens<\/li><li>Goodmayes Park<\/li><li>Hainault Forest <\/li><li>Ilford War Memorial<\/li><li>Seven Kings Park<\/li><li>South Park<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Running for over thirty years, the Green Flag is a sign to visitors that the space boasts the highest possible environmental standards, is beautifully maintained and has the very best facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you enjoy visiting a park or green space to play football, walk the dog, exercise or simply get away from the hustle and bustle, if you think your favourite deserves to be in the top 10 People\u2019s Choice then cast your vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leader of the Council <strong>Cllr Jas Athwal<\/strong>, who is responsible for the borough\u2019s parks, said: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI am so proud that our wonderful parks have yet again been awarded Green Flag status. We\u2019re so fortunate in Redbridge to have so many beautiful green spaces and playparks dotted all around the borough and I am absolutely committed to keeping up our high standards for these parks.<\/p><p>Our dedicated parks team at Vision work exceptionally hard to maintain our parks and we get fantastic support from many community groups too. Now we\u2019re asking you to show your appreciation by voting in the People\u2019s Choice awards and putting our fantastic parks on the map, alongside the very best in the country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The poll is open from 1 September, running throughout the month with the top 10 People\u2019s Choice announced in October 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/visionrcl.org.uk\/parks-outdoor-spaces\/greenflag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Vote for your favourite park<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you\u2019ve cast your vote you can encourage others to get involved through social media using the hashtag #PeoplesChoice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents now have the chance to vote for their favourite Green Flag flying park in Redbridge as part of the People\u2019s Choice 2019 awards. Organised by Keep Britain Tidy, the prestigious poll finds the nation\u2019s top 10 parks from almost 2,000 awarded Green Flag Award status by the environment charity. In July, nine Redbridge parks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[141,140,194,195,196,29,21,591,197,332,8,198,199,193],"class_list":["post-7426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parks","tag-awards","tag-claybury-park","tag-clayhall-park","tag-elmhurst-gardens","tag-goodmayes-park","tag-green-flag","tag-green-flag-park","tag-hainault-forest","tag-ilford-war-memorial","tag-peoples-choice-award","tag-redbridge-parks","tag-seven-kings-park","tag-south-park","tag-valentines-park"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12234,"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426\/revisions\/12234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isca00.bigwaveserver.co.uk\/~visionrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}