Preston Park Tavern in Brighton named Sustainable Pub of the Year

Licensees Helen and Andrew Coggings were presented with the award by Raymond Blanc OBE at the awards ceremony which was held at OXO2 in London.

Blanc is President of the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA), which rated more than 400 restaurants across the UK to find the country’s most sustainable restaurants.

The pub was recognised for its commitment to active engagement with its local community, and a number of measures to reduce the pub’s environmental footprint, including recycling initiatives such as using local wood waste in the restaurant’s log burning stove and re-using menus to make waiters’ pads.

Mark Linehan, managing director of the SRA, said: “Preston Park Tavern is an outstanding example of a pub that sits at the heart of its community, serves high quality, excellently sourced food and does all it can to meet its environmental responsibility. It is a worthy winner and has set the standard for other pubs to follow.”