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      <title>More than £30,000 improvements to Elmfield Park</title>
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      <description>A popular park in Cheltenham has undergone significant improvements ensuring more users can access the greenspace all-year round.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Montpellier Gardens toilet facilities unveiled with new accessible amenities </title>
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      <description>Work on the Montpellier Gardens public toilets, despite challenges, has been completed and marks an improved standard in the town’s public toilet facilities, which are now open. </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Seven Cheltenham parks and gardens retain prestigious Green Flag Awards</title>
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      <description>Seven parks and green spaces across Cheltenham retain their Green Flag status for another year after being named among the best in the country. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:13:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Celebrating seven ‘Green Flag’ awards for Cheltenham as Sandford Park wins Green Flag special status for the first year </title>
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      <description>The council and its partners are again celebrating the Green Flag awards – as Cheltenham retains six flags for its parks and wins a seventh award.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2023 10:41:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Supporting ‘No mow May’ with more of Cheltenham’s green spaces left to grow wild</title>
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      <description>Wildflowers could bloom in more public spaces next month thanks to a pledge by the council to support No Mow May. </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 15:17:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Help us create a living legacy to Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 1926 to 2022</title>
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      <description>Following the wishes of His Majesty The King, The Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) initiative will be extended to the end of March 2023.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Nature boost for town centre park as climate emergency response continues</title>
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      <description>Town centre biodiversity is being boosted thanks to a new wildflower and orchard planting scheme in Cheltenham’s Winston Churchill Memorial Garden.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 14:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Exciting proposals for improvements at Burrows playing fields</title>
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      <description>Burrows playing fields in Leckhampton is set to benefit from a number of improvements, early next year, thanks to a partnership between Cheltenham Borough Council and Leckhampton Rovers Football Club.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2020 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Play areas and outdoor gyms to open</title>
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      <description>Visitors must continue to follow government guidelines and guidance posters at parks and play areas</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2020 15:31:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>New outdoor gym at Caernarvon Park for residents</title>
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      <description>Today, (Wednesday, 11 March) Cheltenham Mayor Councillor Roger Whyborn officially opened the newly installed outdoor gym in Caernarvon Park, Up Hatherley.</description>
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