The Royal Parks

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This article is about the executive agency that runs the parks. For the parks themselves, see Royal Parks of London.

The Royal Parks is an organisation within the UK Government that manages the eight Royal Parks and certain other areas of garden and parkland in London.

They are an executive agency of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and they are directly responsible to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, one of the department's ministerial team. The current Minister is David Lammy MP. The Chief Executive of the agency is Mark Camley, appointed in 2005.

1 Role
2 GreenFleet Awards 2005
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Role

Management and conservation of the 5000 acres of Royal Parks are the agency's primary focus. They run programmes of activities and events to encourage outdoor recreation and public access to these areas. They also allow third parties to run such activities within the grounds to further these objectives, but commercial activity is tightly controlled.

They also regulate filming, audio recording and the taking of photographs in these areas for anything other than personal use through the issuing of licences. They also issue news permits to the media for the specific purpose of covering breaking news items relating to the Parks. Holders of the licences and permits are required to comply with the following pieces of legislation.

The Royal Parks and Other Open Spaces Regulations 1997^[1]
Royal Parks and Other Open Spaces (Amendment) Regulations 2004^[2]

As well as the eight Royal Parks, the agency manages Brompton Cemetery, Grosvenor Square Gardens and the gardens of 10, 11 and 12 Downing Street.

[edit] GreenFleet Awards 2005

In September 2005, The Royal Parks were awarded the EST Best Practice (Public Sector) Award at the GreenFleet Awards ^[3]. The awards recognise achievements in green fuels and alternative transport technologies. The agency negotiated a contract for the installation of LPG fuel bunkers and the supply of fuel in four of the parks under its remit. Each new contract awarded by The Royal Parks requires the contractor to use green fuel.