The Royal Parks welcomes Clare Lanes as Greenwich Park's news Manager
The Royal Parks charity announces that Clare Lanes will join the organisation as the new Park Manager for Greenwich Park, following Graham Dear’s retirement after 13 years at The Royal Parks.
This appointment marks the first female Park Manager at The Royal Parks in over 30 years. The previous female Park Manager was Jennifer Adams who was appointed to the Central Royal Parks in 1983.
The announcement, which coincides with Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day in March, is hoped to inspire a new generation of women and girls in the landscaping and horticultural sectors.
Clare has over 25 years’ experience of working in the landscape industry across the South of England. Clare has spent time with the National Trust as a Parks Manager and more recently with Medway Council Unitary Authority, where she is delivering a Strategic Environmental Management Scheme on the Hoo Peninsula, Kent.
Her experience will be applied to the ongoing delivery of Greenwich Park Revealed - a multi-million pound, 4-year restoration project. This flagship project is restoring the park’s 17th century landscape, enhancing it to boost biodiversity, as well as creating opportunities for the local community through free cultural events, and learning, volunteering and training opportunities.
Greenwich Park Revealed will also create new public park space by opening up a commercial yard and creating community facilities such as a new café, toilets and a volunteering base. It will also create a new learning space for local schools and community groups to use, to learn about and discover the natural environment.
Clare Lanes, Park Manager, Greenwich Park, said:
“Greenwich Park represents all the things that are important to me in my work - nature conservation, horticulture and heritage in an urban park with access to nature for the local community. I am really excited to be joining the Royal Parks’ team as Greenwich Park Manager at such an important time, with the Greenwich Park Revealed project in full swing, and working with the team to deliver the improvements, events and benefits funded by the National Lottery.”
Tom Jarvis, the Director of Parks, The Royal Parks, said:
“We’re very pleased to welcome Clare Lanes as Park Manager for Greenwich Park in April. Her experience managing historic landscapes and in delivering Lottery-funded restoration projects will prove invaluable in her role as Park Manager for Greenwich Park, particularly in supporting the delivery of the Greenwich Park Revealed project over the next two years.”
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