Green Spaces and Playing Fields
Our Green Spaces Team are responsible for the day-to-day management of the 24 green and open spaces around the town.
These range from formal parks such as Daisy Bank, Park and Bank Gardens; to playing fields such as those at Uplands and The Leazes; the town's cemetery off Bisley Road; and informal sites such as those on Lower Street and the top of the High Street.
The Town Council has invested heavily in improving our sites in recent years. Public surveys have told us that the network of green spaces around the town are one of the most loved aspects of living and visiting Stroud.
We have a policy of acquiring as many of these sites as we can to protect them for future generations. In the past year we have bought The Long Ground, between Stratford Road and Cainscross Road from a developer, and the Trinity Pocket Park.
We are in negotiations with owners of three other sites in the parish.
The council manages our green spaces through six-weekly meetings of our Recreation and Finance Committee. Councillors undertake an annual walk-around of the key sites, and set a rolling three-year Green Spaces Management Plan. This is reviewed annually, setting both routine maintenance of each site and planned improvements.
If you have any comments on our plans for any of the sites, if you feel there is something we have missed, or if you would like to get more involved in caring for Stroud's green spaces, please contact our office on London Road.
Download a map showing all the spaces we own or manage 
Map of Green Spaces
In January 2011, we agreed a new three-year management plan covering all 24 of the green and open spaces maintained by the Town Council.
This document outlines our plans for each site during this period. It covers both routine maintenance, and proposed improvements, and will be monitored by our Finance and Recreation Committee twice a year.