Galway City Council’s Recreation & Amenity Section are seeking expressions of interest from groups and organisations, including Environmental Groups, Statutory Bodies, Institutional & Educational Bodies, Residents’ Associations, Retail/Business Park Management Companies, Residential Management Companies, Retailers, Small Businesses to participate over a 5-Year Period commencing in January 2020.

Healthy Green Spaces is a new Initiative which will replace the Community Planting Initiative.

The plan is to work with groups that are committed to developing a long-term approach to their green areas to encompass a range of environmental issues, climate change and biodiversity and who would like to:

1.       Work in tandem with the Recreation & Amenity Section to agree with design & management proposals to enable your green spaces to be people-friendly;
2.       Eliminate the use of pesticides and other harmful chemicals on the green space;
3.       Utilise organic soil nutrition methods and skills;
4.       Adopt a zero waste strategy for the green space to incorporate composting and grasscutting management;
5.       Adopt a plastic-free zone strategy for your green space;
6.       Your green space to be a minimum of a carbon-neutral zone and aim to be a long-term carbon sequester;
7.       Implement the Strategies as established in the National Pollinator Plan; Galway City Council will provide appropriate pollinator plants as part of this;
8.       Adopt the principles of permaculture design & management.

For further details please visit Galway City Council website here or contact the Recreation & Amenity Department at parks@galwaycity.ie

The closing date for receipt of expressions of interest is 12 noon on Friday 19th July, 2019.