Hand in hand with our annual efforts at having the town blooming better and better it has been our aim, with a number of partnerships, to bring about many long-term environmental improvements: 

• 1997/1998 – the start of a 5-year plan to upgrade Promenade Way and the approach to the Waterside.  This has included an ‘in memoriam’ tree planting scheme and, in 1999/2000 the creation of the Mirror Millennium Garden, an attractive amenity garden.  This was a Brightlingsea Town Council/ Brightlingsea in Bloom/ Brightlingsea Business Association partnership

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• Gandergoose Green (between the Co-op and the doctors’ surgery) - the creation of a commemorative garden on a previously bare tarmacked area.

• The Community Centre grounds have now been transformed with the creation of gardens throughout, illustrating an environmentally friendly way of gardening encouraging a variety of wildlife and requiring little maintenance and no watering.

• A big challenge over the years was to source funding to carry out a major restoration of Springmead garden - a totally overgrown and neglected one-acre garden that had been bequeathed to the people of Brightlingsea. Now matured, it provides a quiet and tranquil oasis for residents and visitors.