Press Release
Celebrate Parks in Brentwood for Love Parks Week
Date: 2 August 2022
Brentwood Borough Council is encouraging people to explore our Country Parks as part of Love Parks Week 2022, which runs until Friday 5 August. Love Parks Week celebrates our open green spaces and supports volunteers and workers around the country, who help maintain parks and other green spaces. The nationwide campaign also works with businesses, local authorities and the government to educate people and find creative solutions for dealing with litter, improving public spaces and educating future generations, with the Keep Britain Tidy environmental education programme. Councillor Will Russell, Chair of the Community, Environment and Enforcement Committee said: “Parks and other green spaces are great for boosting wellbeing and keeping fit. Whether you’re out picnicking with friends, looking to walk your dog somewhere different, or enjoying a walk with friends or family, parks are beautiful spaces to take a breather, play and connect with others. In Brentwood, we have beautiful country parks that people can enjoy at their leisure. This week is a reminder too, of all the fantastic work that our volunteers and workers do, to maintain these places for us to enjoy. If you haven’t explored our parks yet, now is a good time to start.” Hutton Country Park is a local nature reserve, supporting a vast array of active fora and fauna. The park has a large area of natural grassland and an ancient woodland, ponds, wetland and the River Wid. St Faiths’s covers 16 acres of open grassland fields and is ideal for walking, nature watching and dog walking. Merrymeade Country Park is an oasis of wildlife close to the town centre. It is a 34-hectare park, with a small area of woodland and wetland habitats, including a pond and stream. Warley Country Park has been developed on former farmland and it has species of flowers including red clover, rosebay, scarlet pimpernel and a variety of bees and butterflies, regularly on the grasslands. For more information on the parks in Brentwood, visit www.brentwood.gov.uk/-/country-parks ENDS |