Category: Features

Roger Jones (Friends of West Ham Park) and Dave Morris (London Friends of Green Spaces Network) illustrate the transformative impact on London’s parks of the volunteer Friends who champion them.

Continue reading What are friends for?

Ellen Salter and Julia Haggstrom, Sustainability Consultants at
Arup, describe how the Wild West End partnership is setting new
standards for appropriate development in city green space.

Continue reading Setting a “Green Print”

How skateboarders are transforming open spaces in London and beyond

Chris Lawton, Community Development Officer at Skateboard GB and Visiting Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University, describes how the grass-roots skateboard community’s commitment to redeveloping skate spaces could turn London greener, not greyer.

Continue reading DIY redevelopment:

Walking with John Goodier

A circular walk, starting and ending at Ladbroke Grove underground station.

Continue reading Space to play in Ladbroke Grove

Professional gardener Catherine Miller explores the adaptability that is helping to future-proof London’s community gardens.

Continue reading Rising to the challenge: London’s community gardens

The impact of coronavirus on London’s green spaces

Local green spaces were used heavily during the coronavirus lockdown as many of us craved fresh air and exercise. Yet rather than heralding a new dawn for London’s parks, Dr Andrew Smith, Reader at the University of Westminster, explains how the COVID-19 crisis exposed the funding frailties which have long threatened their survival.

Continue reading Precarious Parks