Help bring two community parklets to life
As part of our parklets campaign, we are working with two groups in East London to reclaim parking spaces and turn them into green and vibrant community meeting places.
With the initial designs drafted, and local building teams ready to go, the only thing left is to raise the funds to make these community parklets a reality.
We’ve launched crowdfunding pages so that the local communities, and anyone who wants to support the transition to a cleaner, safer London, can help reach our goal, and bring these parklets to life.
For each parklet, we need to raise between £1,500 and £2,000 to cover materials, construction, plants, tools, equipment and insurance.
Can you help us reach our goal?
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St Stephen’s Health Centre is situated in a cul-de-sac just off the Roman Road. Reaching the health centre can be a challenge especially on market days due to parked vehicles, uneven pavements and random bollards blocking the footway. This makes access particularly difficult for people with mobility issues and parents with young children in pushchairs. Additionally, many patients suffer from respiratory illness and other chronic health conditions. Tower Hamlets has high levels of air pollution and many residents lack access to green space.
The Health Centre, the Patient Participation Group, and the practice Gardening Group have a vision to create a parklet. The parklet will transform William Place from an unloved grey cul-de-sac into a green oasis for staff and patients at the practice, residents, local schoolchildren, workers and market visitors.
Photo of two women enjoying William Place's pop-up parklet on Car Free Day 2022.
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Like many housing estates in London, the Nightingale Estate used to be dominated by parked cars belonging to non-residents. With most estate residents not owning cars, there is an abundance of grey concrete and empty spaces, which has become a dumping ground for rubbish.
Local residents have decided to do something about it - and build a beautiful green parklet.
Parklet builder Michael Giambrone measuring the space for a new Parklet on the Nightingale Estate.
Our parklets project is all about supporting urban communities across the UK to reimagine their streets as spaces free from car dominance. Find out more about what we’re doing and ways to take action yourself at this page.
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