Section C

The environment - sustainable development

The Britain in Bloom objectives represent environmental standards that are designed to improve the areas where we live, work and spend our leisure time.

 

Looking after our environment has become a key expectation as most of us are encouraged to recycle materials and use environmentally-friendly products.

 

The judges will be looking for schemes which are working towards providing environmental enhancements and which might include:

• Establishing nature conservation and wildlife areas.
• Cleaning up polluted sites.
• Active policies to reduce the demand placed on naturally occurring resources - e.g. source of water used for plants, use of peat, use of hardwood timber etc.
• Maintaining and preserving natural habitat.
• Minimal use of pesticides and nitrate fertilisers.

The judges will mark conservation and areas of natural habitat more highly if there is also an element of education to explain the activity underway; for example, interpretation material or signage at appropriate/relevant points.