16/04/2026
The Best Kept Town Competition is a 32 county event . Arklow has been nominated as one of Southern Ireland's representative towns. Eight towns from Southern Ireland and six from Northern Ireland are invited to participate. Adjudicators will visit our town this May on an unknown date .
The criteria for judging includes Shop and Business Frontage. Is your premises well presented? Please look at your signage, the plinth at the base of your building, all the windows, are they clean, your entrance doors or gates to the side . Please power wash, w**d, sweep, clean windows, touch up paintwork.
The adjudicators also drive around to get the general impression on care and support in the town, looking at Business Entrances, Business Industrial Parks, information boards, public buildings, gable walls and landscaping . Please tidy up your entrances, clean signs, remove any dumping or litter in your vicinity.
They consider Public Spaces like the gardens, the harbour, the beach, park, tree planting and soft landscaping . The schools and churches frontage and their boundary wall onto the public footpath . Sports grounds and their entrances. Could you organise a Clean Up Group?
The presentation of Residential Areas, front gardens, landscaped entrance. What about organising an Estate Clean Up Day?
The judges have only 14 towns in total to visit . They are reviewing all aspects of each town. We can do this if we all put a huge effort into presenting everywhere at its very best . If you have already cleaned up Thank You. The tourism boost and investment expected to the town that wins this prestigious award is very worthwhile.
Summer hanging baskets greatly enhance the town for the second judging for Supervalu Tidy Town competition in June. Please contact [email protected] to order your floral display or to donate to support. Sponsorship of the baskets is needed for this project to continue to enhance our town .
Thank You All, Sandra Duffy and Teresa Earls and the Arklow Tidy Towns Volunteers.
