Ten London parks are to each receive a £400,000 makeover, following a public vote.
Londoners were recently invited by mayor Boris Johnson to vote on a shortlist of parks across the capital in order to fund improvements to make them more attractive and safer for local communities. More than 110,000 people cast their vote.
The 10 winning parks are located in Haringey, Barnet, Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge, Ealing, Kensington & Chelsea, Bexley, Greenwich, Richmond, and Croydon. Burgess Park, Southwark, has been awarded a larger £2M grant to undertake a more substantial upgrade.
Funding for the makeovers comes from efficiency savings made from the former administration’s publicity budget, including the scrapping of The Londoner newspaper.
The winning parks will be improved in a variety of ways, ranging from better footpaths and more lighting for safety, to providing new playgrounds and facilities for children. Others will open cafes, refurbish derelict public toilets and improve cycle routes. Several of the parks include exciting plans to re-naturalise ugly concrete river channels or even restore buried streams.
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