Green and Resilient Spaces Fund - Round Two

This flagship project brought together the community and local partners to co-design a shared vision for the park situated in the heart of Tottenham Hale, with the help of a development grant in round one of the Fund. The project will now transform the north-east of the park as a first phase of a wider improvements, with new biodiverse rain gardens and a network of new footpaths, connecting to a mile-long chain of green routes connecting Tottenham’s residents to the Lee Valley. A programme of community-led activities will complement the physical improvements, tackling the barriers some of the residents experience to use the park and supporting the development of a fairer, greener neighbourhood.

Grant: £750,000

This project will open up and naturalise the Silk Stream across two parks, Chandos Park and Watling Park to create new flood storage areas and wetland habitats, as well as improving community access to the parks with new entrances, footpaths, footbridge, signage and boardwalks. This is part of a wider ‘Action for Silkstream’ project to develop nature-based solutions to the problem of flood risk across the community of parks within the Silk Stream catchment, providing environmental, social, health and amenity benefits.

Grant: £600,000

This project will establish a ‘Green Ring’ circular pathway connecting six parks in Northolt with safe, green walking and cycling routes. The grant will help deliver the first in a series of focus areas along the route where climate action projects will activate and enhance the Green Ring. The project will include tackling flooding by de-culverting a water course in a critical area of flood risk and creating a new wetland flood storage area in Belvue Park as well as a foraging passageway, which will support local food production, green skills and community cohesion.

Grant: £746,125

This project will create new green space between the two parks by closing a road to motor traffic and merging the two adjacent parks together, turning grey space into green space and encouraging sustainable, active travel. The grant will also improve the quality of the two parks with new tree planting, play facilities and pathways.

Grant: £450,000

The project will reimagine 8 hectares of high climate-risk, underutilised housing estate land in Poplar. A climate-resilient landscape masterplan will be co-designed with local and under-represented communities in Poplar in collaboration with Poplar HARCAs Landscape Team. Through the project’s engagement programme, participating residents will be remunerated and offered training and skills opportunities. Primarily focusing on estate land outside of regeneration areas, the project will also create strategic and ecological connections between parks and open spaces across the wider neighbourhood.

This project will carry out an area-wide review of a pilot, exemplar Green Neighbourhood area. The project boundary encompasses Roundwood Park, Willesden New Cemetery and a series of high-density residential streets in a highly deprived area. Following an extensive consultation period with residents, the council is looking to enhance the green spaces available in this locality with climate-resilience enhancing features, and to implement at least four Green Corridors that intersect the neighbourhood. The Green Corridors will provide the infrastructure to support active travel and create green and attractive routes that connect the pockets of green space in the neighbourhood, improving access for all.

This project aims to revitalise two housing estates in some of the most deprived parts of the borough, creating more inclusive, integrated, and sustainable community spaces. The grant will be used to carry out the first step in achieving this aim by completing an area assessment and creating plans through co-production with the community.

This is a joint project between Westminster City Council and Canal & River Trust, focusing on the North Paddington Canalside between Little Venice and Queens Park. The aim is to transform the Grand Union canal into a blue-green spine for the north of the city. The project will enable better connections for local people to the waterway, making it more central to their communities whilst strengthening the areas climate resilience and biodiversity.

This project aims to create a community green corridor and pocket parks to link the East and West sides of Caledonian Road, increasing tree canopy and green space for climate resilience and health and well-being benefits for businesses, residents and people passing through as part of the ‘We are Cally’ project.

This project provides a unique opportunity to transform a disused road into a linear park.  The road was part of the London 2012 Games in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and was to form part of the road network. However, it is now not needed and will remain closed and unadopted by local authorities. During Covid lockdowns local people started using it, but its poor quality attracts antisocial behaviour. Local people would like it improved and this project will develop local community ideas into an exemplar grey to green project.

Lancaster West has been impacted by historic social injustices, exacerbated by the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing climate and cost-of-living crises. This project will develop plans to address current issues and maximise opportunities including poor access to nature, flood risk, connectivity, lighting, safety, and accessibility in a way that can be replicated across London. Building on extensive community engagement, the process will be co-designed and co-delivered with the community to maximise health and wellbeing, as well as environmental benefits.

This is a community-powered project to create and develop much-needed doorstep green space in one of the greyest and intensively developed areas of London, for the benefit of people, nature and the environment.  Led by the National Trust, the project will develop the emerging ambition to make spaces work harder, providing a catalyst to scale-up green infrastructure delivery in this part of Lewisham. Consultation identified poor-quality fenced green spaces, which the community wish to use for growing, community gardens and play.

This project aims to develop an estate-wide landscape masterplan that sets priorities for improvements, enhancing the public realm as a vital and effective community resource, supporting community cohesion and wellbeing by providing climate resilient spaces and improved access and availability of green space. It will help to identify opportunities for co-design and will test the selection of key sites with the community.