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Our teams of landscape architects and project officers work with people to create or improve community gardens, parks, play areas, footpaths and natural spaces. These spaces are vital to our everyday quality of life, but are often neglected and attract crime.
They need to be well designed, made relevant to the needs of local people – and be beautiful havens for wildlife. We also help to create activities to put land back to use, such as sport and exercise schemes or food growing.
Location: Kingston, London Jubilee Way Playscape offers an adventurous play area for children and teenagers that is very different to traditional playgrounds seen all over the country.
Location: Westminster, London Groundwork London were commissioned to create a new Nature Area in Paddington Recreation Ground by Westminster City Council as part of their Capital Programme with the aim of addressing an identified deficiency in access to wildlife in the local area, highlighted in the London Plan and WCC’s Unitary Development Plan (UDP), Open Space Strategy and Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP).
Location: Hanwell, London The Playscape approach illustrates how the entire landscape can offer play value rather than simply relying on springy chickens,rubber impact surfacing and bow top fencing.
Location: Lambeth, London The redevelopment of Ufford Street Recreation Ground in the London Borough of Lambeth was funded by the profits from the 5p Marks & Spencer charges for food carrier bags. This is the first London ‘Greener Living Space’ to launch in the capital.
Location: Hammersmith, London The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Groundwork London are behind a remarkable garden - developed from a sketch on a paper napkin into a living, breathing oasis of green in a heavily built up urban area.
Location: West Camberwell, London In West Camberwell, Blucher Road, a passage linking Camberwell Road and Comber Grove was identified as a dismal site that could be brightened up. It is a well used route including a main walk way to and from Comber Grove Primary School.
Location: Southwark, London Aylesbury Gardens is a community garden for residents to grow their own produce and have a safe place to meet each other and socialise. The space was constructed by participants in a Groundwork employment scheme called The Green Team that provides practical horticulture experience, training and qualifications.
Location: Honchurch, Havering Abbs Cross Community Group, with the support of Groundwork London created a fantastic community garden that provides residents of all ages with a place to sit, relax and play in.
Location: Brent As part of Groundwork London’s One World Schools programme, Roe Green Junior School in Kingsbury, are working to be a flagship school for sustainability in Brent. By being part of this programme, staff from Groundwork in west London provideenvironmental expertise to the school and advise them on how to embed the principles of sustainable development, adopting a whole school approach.
Location: Southwark Groundwork London and Policy Connect helped realise the ambition of Charles Dickens Primary School to build and sustain an eco-garden on what was once a piece of waste land. After the school installed an ‘eco-pod’, a day was spent clearing the surrounding area and replanting, to produce an environment that will allow pupils to have an outdoor garden space, learn amongst the orchard, and grow their own vegetables.
