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2018 Portfolio WH Anglia in Bloom Portfolio.Qxp Layout 1 27/06/2018 17:25 Page 2 WH_Anglia_in_Bloom_Portfolio.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2018 17:24 Page 1 Welwyn Hatfield in Bloom 2018 Portfolio WH_Anglia_in_Bloom_Portfolio.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2018 17:25 Page 2 Forward by Cllr Stephen Boulton Executive Member for Environment and Planning Delivery We are very pleased to be entering our borough into Anglia in Bloom for the first time this year. Welwyn Hatfield truly is a unique place where residents and visitors can enjoy a fantastic blend of town and country. We have so many officers and fantastic volunteers working on different projects across the borough and we want to celebrate our achievements through this application. We hope you enjoy reading our portfolio and are looking forward to you visiting our borough on the 5th July. Index Page 3 Page 10 Page 16 Welwyn Hatfield Conservation and Communication and Biodiversity Education Page 4 Horticultural Practice Page 11 Page 17 Resource Management Allotments Page 5 Impact: Page 12 Page 18 Welwyn Garden City Local Heritage Volunteers Page 6 Page 13 Page 19 Impact: Town Centres Local Environmental Calendar of Events Quality Page 7 Green Spaces Page 14 Street Furniture Page 9 Residential and Page 15 Community Gardening Plans for the Future 2 WELWYN HATFIELD BOROUGH COUNCIL WH_Anglia_in_Bloom_Portfolio.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2018 17:25 Page 3 Welwyn Hatfield Woolmer Green Oaklands & Mardley Ayot St Lawrence Heath Welwyn Digswell Ayot St Peter Ayot Green Lemsford Welwyn Garden City Stanborough Essendon Hatfield Woodside Wildhill BLOSSOM IN WELHAM GREEN APRIL Bell Bar Welham Green Newgate Street Our Vision and Brookmans Park Priorities Swanley Bar Cuffley Northaw Our vision is to make Welwyn Hatfield a Little Heath great place to live, work and study with a vibrant and growing economy. Our priorities are to: Introduction • Maintain a safe and healthy community Welwyn Hatfield is located in Hertfordshire, covering • Protect and enhance the environment an area of 130km2. The borough is made up of two • Meet the borough’s housing needs new towns of Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City and a number of large and small villages providing a mix • Help build a strong local economy of urban, suburban and rural areas, with each town • Engage with our communities and having its own identity and character. The borough provide value for money also contains large areas of open countryside. The area boasts a number of conservation areas, listed buildings, areas of archaeological significance and currently, four registered historic parks and gardens. Integral to this built environment are the trees in the verges and urban woodlands that provide a setting for the development. The borough’s population is estimated to be around 122,000, making it the second fastest growing local authority in Hertfordshire with an annual population growth rate of 2.25 per cent. WELWYN HATFIELD BOROUGH COUNCIL 3 WH_Anglia_in_Bloom_Portfolio.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2018 17:25 Page 4 Horticultural Achievement WOOLMER GREEN VILLAGE PLANTER JUNE RURAL COUNTRYSIDE JUNE WOOLMER GREEN VILLAGE POND JUNE Horticultural Practice: What we do We are responsible for cutting nearly 3 million m2 of grass and also Hello. I would like to care for conservation grasslands, wildflower grasslands and ecotones. express my thanks We also plant in excess of 80,000 bulbs, plants and bedding each year for the efficient leaf for our residents and visitors to the borough to enjoy. clearing work performed We maintain more than 40,000 individual tress, 207 tree-belt and 43 today in Brockswood primary and secondary woodlands in both urban and rural areas Lane around the six horse across the borough. chestnut trees. I am so pleased that this work I wanted to congratulate the council on the has been done so early mowing regime of parks specifically the sensitive this winter. It is very manner that wild flower meadows are maintained much appreciated.’ (ie; areas uncut through the summer).’ Compliment from resident, Compliment from resident, November 2017. June 2017. 4 WELWYN HATFIELD BOROUGH COUNCIL WH_Anglia_in_Bloom_Portfolio.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2018 17:25 Page 5 Horticultural Achievement NEW TREES IN BLOSSOM APRIL FOUNTAIN IN WELWYN GARDEN CITY JULY EARLY PROMOTIONAL POSTER FOR WELWYN GARDEN CITY BLOSSOM IN SUMMERDALE APRIL Impact: Welwyn Garden City Welwyn Garden City was founded by Sir Ebenezer Howard in 1920, who aimed to combine the benefits of a city and the countryside. The town is laid out along tree-lined boulevards and every road has a wide grass verge. To mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, a fountain was erected in Parkway at the intersection with Howardsgate in 1953. In recent years, the water in the fountain has been dyed pink in October in recognition of Breast Cancer month and throughout July this year, the water will be blue to celebrate the NHS. I just wanted to say thanks for planting the new trees along my street this week - they really add to it and I’m sure will do for many years to come.’ Compliment from Resident, March 2018. WELWYN HATFIELD BOROUGH COUNCIL 5 WH_Anglia_in_Bloom_Portfolio.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2018 17:25 Page 6 Horticultural Achievement HOWARDSGATE APRIL HATFIELD TOWN CENTRE FLOWERS APRIL THE CAMPUS JULY Impact: Our Town Centres Business Areas and Premises We plant Spring and Summer bedding annually in our two town I was quickly walking centres in Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City. Each year, we though Hatfield town design our spring and summer bedding around key themes or centre the other day but events; for example, this year, some of our summer bedding colours are green, white and purple, in recognition of the I had to suddenly STOP & was suffragettes. blown away & stunned to see all those crisp very sharp and The Welwyn Garden City BID is a not-for-profit company set up stylish burgundy Tulips so by businesses in Welwyn Garden City town centre supported by neatly landscaped, you have government legislation to improve the area. Their vision is to create a town centre which is innovative and modern, which some very good gardeners… builds on the unique garden city principles and characteristics ..wow wasn’t expecting that! to make it a great place to visit, work and live. This summer, Thank you. Loving the colour the BID team in Welwyn Garden have installed a number of shade & the fact that some planters for residents and visitors to enjoy. are curly petals & some smooth - fab.’ Compliment from resident, April 2018. 6 WELWYN HATFIELD BOROUGH COUNCIL WH_Anglia_in_Bloom_Portfolio.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2018 17:25 Page 7 Horticultural Achievement BID PLANTER JULY BID PLANTER JULY HOWARDSGATE APRIL A group of us gardeners went to Mottisfont Abbey on Monday to see Graham Thomas’s old fashioned rose garden. It was as beautiful as we had hoped it would be. But, as one of us said, and we all agreed, if you walk down Parkway it is such a delight it makes you wonder why we needed to travel to Hampshire.’ Compliment from resident, June 2018. I am writing to congratulate the gardeners responsible for the delightful natural plantings in the flower beds around the town centre. The colour combinations are really lovely and an inspired choice by whoever masterminded it. Thank you!’ Compliment form resident, July 2017. WELWYN HATFIELD BOROUGH COUNCIL 7 WH_Anglia_in_Bloom_Portfolio.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2018 17:25 Page 8 Horticultural Achievement APRIL JULY NOVEMBER DECEMBER CHRISTMAS Green Spaces: TREE OF REMEMBRANCE & GREEN FLAG The Lawn Cemetery, DECEMBER Hatfield The Lawn Cemetery was opened in 1984 by the Lord Bishop of Hertford with the landscape permitting only upright headstones, placed on predetermined concrete plinths at the head of the grave. The size and shape of the memorials are constrained to ensure a unified design in an effort to encourage well maintained grass. For the last 3 years, the Lawn Cemetery has achieved Green Flag status. Each December, we place a tree of remembrance on which families can write names of family members on stars. All donations received go to a local charity. Twice a year, the Friends of the Cemetery group organise communal bulb planting days. 8 WELWYN HATFIELD BOROUGH COUNCIL WH_Anglia_in_Bloom_Portfolio.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2018 17:25 Page 9 Horticultural Achievement COMPETITION ENTRIES FROM SUMMER 2017 Residential and Community Gardening: Bloomin’ Good Garden Competition Each summer, we run the annual “Tenants Panel Blooming Good Garden Competition” open to tenants and leaseholders in our borough. Categories include: • Best Back Garden • Best Front Garden • Best Balcony/Window Box • Best Communal Garden • Best Allotments • Best Special Chair Award Winners receive a garden voucher, trophy and certificate which is presented at an event hosted by our tenants panel chair giving out the prizes. WELWYN HATFIELD BOROUGH COUNCIL 9 WH_Anglia_in_Bloom_Portfolio.qxp_Layout 1 27/06/2018 17:25 Page 10 Environmental Responsibility SPRING WOODHALL ORCHARD SEPTEMBER DOR MOUSE SHERRARDSPARK WOOD MAY Conservation and Biodiversity: Our Woodlands Woodlands in Welwyn Hatfield offer excellent access for peaceful enjoyment of trees, foliage, autumn and spring colours, running water and sunny glades, not forgetting the joy of seeing woodland wildlife, enjoying birdsong and even perhaps gathering fungi. The larger woodlands have extensive networks of both public and permissive paths and trails which are well way-marked to help visitors. The boroughs largest woodlands, Northaw Great Wood and Sherradspark Wood are designated Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Throughout the year, Sherrardspark Wood Wardens Society
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