Burslem Park is a public park in Burslem , Stoke-on-Trent , Staffordshire , England, operated by Stoke-on-Trent City Council . It was opened in 1894, and is essentially unchanged from the original layout. It is listed Grade II* in Historic England 's Register of Parks and Gardens .
8-448: The park received a Green Flag Award in July 2023. The park, created on derelict industrial land, was designed by Thomas H. Mawson . Mawson had begun his career as a landscape architect designing gardens for country houses. He went on to design a number of public parks including Hanley Park . Work started in 1893; a great quantity of soil was brought to the site to lay out the park. It
16-470: The United States. The owners of spaces that wish to hold the accreditation, pay a fee to be assessed by volunteer judges on an annual basis with a process involving secret shoppers and inspection of both the park and the owner's management plans. The aspects that spaces are judged on are: A failure to meet the judges' standards can result in the accreditation being withdrawn; one example of this
24-678: The awardees, the Green Flag Award is also issued to sites with different uses, such as Loughborough University and Bluewater Shopping Centre , for the management of their grounds. The Green Flag Award is managed under licence from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities , a UK Government department, by Keep Britain Tidy , who also administers the scheme in England and several other countries, including Australia and
32-425: The central axis, are two terracotta circular basins with simple fountains. Green Flag Award The Green Flag Award is an international accreditation given to publicly accessible parks and open spaces, managed under licence from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities , a UK Government department, by Keep Britain Tidy , who also administers the scheme in England . The Green Flag Award
40-522: The eastern side of the park is the Terrace, along the edge of which is a formal terracotta balustrade. Steps lead up to either side of the bandstand; this is a cast iron structure erected in 2008, replacing the original wooden bandstand destroyed by fire in 2005. A pavilion, in Tudor Revival style , stands on the eastern edge of the terrace. Between the bandstand and the pavilion, on either side of
48-486: The scheme across the UK, and various other bodies delivering worldwide. The scheme's aim is to promote standards of good management and best-practice amongst the green space sector. It is described by its issuers, Keep Britain Tidy, as an "internationally recognised award that is a benchmark for well-managed green space". As of October 2021, 2227 parks and open spaces held a Green Flag Award. While public parks make up most of
56-617: Was introduced in 1996, and first awarded in 1997, by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) with the intention of establishing agreed standards of good management, to help to justify and evaluate funding and to raise park attendance. The scheme was managed by Civic Trust , on MHCLG's behalf, until they lost the contract and the charity went bust in 2009. The scheme has been managed by Keep Britain Tidy since 2012, with sister organisations Keep Scotland Beautiful , Keep Wales Tidy and TIDY Northern Ireland delivering
64-416: Was opened on 30 August 1894. A programme of restoration began in 2005 and was completed in 2012. The area of the park is 9 hectares (22 acres). There is a network of informal paths, with a tree-lined central grass area. On the west is an informal lake. On rising land at the northern end, on a former spoil heap, is an extensive rockery constructed of Pulhamite , through which runs an ornamental cascade. On
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