Public Parks and Floral Displays

The Council maintains public parks, public open spaces and floral displays, sports pitches and other outdoor sports facilities. Sports pitches and facilities can be hired for use by individuals and organisations.

Here are links to details of a selection of our public parks:

Public Park, Duns

Play area, horticultural interest, memorials

Public Park, Galashiels

Skatepark, play area

Gala Policies Community Woodland

Woodland walks

Haylodge Park, Peebles

Riverside walks, horticultural interest, play areas

Wilton Lodge Park, Hawick

Floral displays, walks, play areas, memorial

Tweedbank Public Park

Open parkland, established trees and shrubs, loch, variety of wildlife,network of footpaths

Additional Information

Gardens

In addition, we have a number of beautiful public gardens, some of which have regularly won national awards.

Floral Gateway

The Scottish Borders has an annual competition for local communities called the Floral Gateway. For details of the competition and past winners see the Floral Gateway pages.

Frequently Asked Questions

The FAQ page features questions about Parks and Gardens.

Play Areas

We maintain all adopted play areas and equipment much of which can be found in public parks. For more information, please contact the Parks and Open Spaces Service.

Hire of floral displays/hanging baskets

The general public or businesses can hire floral displays (as either a half display or a full display) and hanging baskets. For further information about this, please call 01896 661777.

Fees and charges

For costs of the services described above, you can see our Fees and Charges.

Cleansing

The Council's Parks and Open Spaces Service manages public parks, public open spaces and floral displays. For minor day-to-day cleansing issues in parks and open spaces, contact SBLocal.

Disabled access

For details of disabled access to Scottish Borders Parks and other facilities, see the Borders Disability Forum website.