APSE Parks Seminar 2022 - Wednesday 30 March Lancashire Cricket Club, Emirates Old Trafford, Talbot Road, Manchester, M16 0PX
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seminars APSE Parks Seminar 2022 Wednesday 30 March Lancashire Cricket Club, Emirates Old Trafford, Talbot Road, Manchester, M16 0PX
Programme
9:00 Registration and exhibition viewing Introducing the Parks and Greenspaces Research
Portal
10:00 Session One
• What exactly is the portal?
APSE state of the market parks and the 2021 state of • What will it include?
UK public parks report • How will it help parks professionals?
• Results analysis and trends Dr. Anna Barker, Associate Professor in Criminal
• The Findings of the APSE State of UK Public Parks Justice and Crimonology, University of Leeds, Dr.
Report (2021) Nicola Dempsey, Senior Lecturer in Landscape,
• Future issues for the management of parks and Planning and Management, University of Sheffield
greenspaces and Paul Todd, Green Flag award scheme manager,
Paul O’Brien APSE Chief Executive Keep Britain Tidy
The Creation of the RHS Bridgewater Garden
Audience question and answer session
• Why Bridgewater?
• The planning and progress of creating an RHS garden. 13:00 Lunch and exhibition viewing
• Future plans and the wider benefits the garden will
bring 14:00 Session Three
Marcus Chilton-Jones, Curator RHS Garden Preserving parks in perpetuity – the Liverpool
Bridgewater, The Royal Horticultural Society experience
‘Parks in the sky’ reimagining Manchester’s • Why decide to protect all of Liverpool’s parks and
Castlefield viaduct greenspaces?
• A Forgotten Icon • Developing the process – Fields in Trust
• Visioning the future park • Benefits achieved and future plans.
• Creating a cultural, heritage and greenspace amenity Helena Cunningham, Liverpool City Council & Tamsin
in the heart of Manchester Fudge Head of Projects and Stewardship, Fields in
Duncan Laird, Head of Urban Places, The National Trust
Trust Pollinator parks and their role in improving the wider
ecosystem
Audience question and answer session
• What is a pollinator park?
• Developing the bigger ecosystem picture – Green
11:15 Coffee break and exhibition viewing
Connectors & Wildflower Action Plans
11:45 Session Two • Engaging with the community
• Plans for the future
Manchester’s park strategy 2017 – 2027 – the half way
point Seamus Connolly, Group Manager Parks Development
& Bereavement Services, Glasgow City Council.
• The importance of creating a long-term vision.
• Aims, objectives, targets and timescales. Gosford Park: The journey – APSE service award
• 5 years in – a progress report. winner 2021
Kylie Ward, Parks Lead, Neighbourhoods Directorate, • Undertaking Appraisals & identifying Stakeholders
Manchester City Council • Infrastructure – fit for purpose?
• Strategy fitting in
Lambeth’s non-chemical romance
• Staff & operational leadership
• Where it started • Future developments
• The public perception
Peter McVeigh, Outdoor H&R Manager, Armagh City,
• The challenges and unforeseen issues
Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council
• The success and changing views
Ian Ross, Head of Parks and Leisure Services, Lambeth Audience question and answer session
Council
15:30 Seminar close
Seminar Objectives
About the Speakers
This seminar has been designed to look at as wide a range of topics affecting parks as possible, but with a particular emphasis
on: increasing and improving the quality of parks and areas of greenspace, looking how such areas can be managed to improve
levels of biodiversity through reduced use of chemicals and sensitive planting and developing strategies and policies which will
not only deliver parks of the future, but also preserve them in perpetuity. There will also be an opportunity to hear about the
development of the latest RHS garden at Bridgewater and how it has providing a wide range of benefits beyond horticultural
excellence.
• APSE will introduce the seminar by outlining some of the key issues for parks managers through providing feedback on
the results of APSE State of the Market report 2022 and summarising the key messages of the APSE State of UK Public
Parks 2021 which gained significant media coverage.
• The Royal Horticultural Society will take us on a journey of how it has developed the new Bridgewater garden, the first
garden in the North West, and the benefits this will bring both to horticulturalists and the wider community.
• The National Trust will be explaining how they are creating a ‘park in the sky’ by developing a new park on the Castlefield
Viaduct in the heart of Manchester.
• With the increasing use of chemicals to manage our parks and green spaces in the news, we will hear how Lambeth
Council have developed a fully-fledged integrated weed control policy, which they are implementing around using
significantly lower levels of chemical to manage their greenspaces with the growing support of the public.
• Parks strategies are regarded as being critical to ensuring finance and political support are gained to support future
visions for an area’s parks. Manchester City Council will explain their 10-year strategic vision, which is now at it half way
point, highlighting successes and the need to consider any changes which may need to be introduced in light of the
previous five years experiences.
• Recently Liverpool City Council has decided to protect its parks and greenspaces in perpetuity to ensure future
generations will continue to have access to these wonderful spaces. Working with Fields in Trust, delegates will hear why
and how this was achieved and the benefits it will bring.
• Keep Britain Tidy and Sheffield University have developed the Parks and Green Spaces Research Portal a resource which
will create a link between universities/research organisations and parks management to allow the sharing of research
findings and possibly also funding opportunities for parks and green spaces. Delegates will hear about how they can use
this resource and the types of information it will host.
• The need to protect our pollinators and the ecosystems in which they thrive is a key responsibility for parks managers.
Delegates will learn how Glasgow Council are working to create special pollinator parks through the planting of
wildflower and developing wider ‘green connectors’ to help link up wider ecosystems for the benefits of increasing
levels of biodiversity.
• The winner of APSE’s Best Service for Parks and Horticultural Services Award 2021, will be explaining how they have
transformed a well – known local park into a major tourist attraction as well as a major contributor to corporate strategies
Being one of APSE’s first physical seminars since the onset of COVID, there will be a welcome return to networking with
colleagues and discuss common issues and ways to solve problems as well as assessing new ideas and innovative ways
of working.
Venue
Lancashire Cricket Club,
Emirates Old Trafford,
Talbot Road,
Manchester,
M16 0PX
Booking Information
About the Seminar
Over the past two years the impact of COVID has brought about lifestyle changes to many people, whether this be working
more from home or coping with social distancing requirements in the outside world. What has become clear is that COVID has
had significant negative impacts on people’s health and well-being, and one of the most common ways of coping with this
negativity, has been to escape into parks and greenspaces.
It has been recognised that our public parks and the wider green and blue infrastructure are continuing to play a critical role
in maintaining the nation’s mental and physical health and overall wellbeing. By providing places for everyday exercise, and
recreation, parks (both urban and countryside) have shown themselves to be a vital part of our lives.
Despite these facts, there is still a great deal of pessimism about the future funding of our parks and despite Government’s
recent funding announcements, there is still along way to go to make up the losses experienced over the last decade to parks
budgets.
Whilst the seminar will touch on some of these issues, it will also take a more up-beat approach to the future of our parks and
greenspaces by looking at new park and garden developments, the importance of forward planning for our parks together with
ways in which our parks and greenspaces can be preserved, protected and regenerated.
The seminar will also look at how more environmentally practices are paying dividends for the nation’s biodiversity and the
wider environment.
And finally, the importance of sharing data will be addressed and how this can help current and future parks managers in their
roles.
APSE’s 2022 Annual Parks Seminar intends to give colleagues greater hope, by exposing them to innovative approaches to
increasing, improving and securing the long-term future of these valuable environmental assets and the wider ecosystem they
inhabit.
Therefore, this seminar is a MUST ATTEND EVENT for those officers and members who want to look at new ways of
understanding and coping with parks and greenspace issues, whether these be financial, environmental, technological or social.
Delegate Packages Exclusive of VAT
What’s included?
The delegate fee covers attendance, delegates’ documentation, lunches and light refreshments.
APSE member delegate fee: £179 + VAT
Non member delegates fee: £265 + VAT
Commercial delegates: £375 + VAT
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