Evening Standard12 April 2012

London's parks are some of its greatest glories. And away from the big central parks, it is our local patches of green space that are most important to our quality of life. So today's Green Flag awards for 151 of London's open spaces are a welcome recognition of how green the city can be, scattered across the whole capital. Especially encouraging are the awards to parks such as Bow Creek Ecology Park, on a patch of former industrial wasteland in Canning Town: if the industrial East End can be transformed as it has been at Bow Creek, that makes plans for parkland around the nearby Olympic site all the more promising.

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