Grove Park District Park
The key goal of the vision is to create a coherent natural parkland over the whole of the project site that delivers an accessible, multi-functional district park provision that enhances the ecology and habitat, encourages biodiversity and provides multiple social and well-being functions.
The Grove Park landscape once inspired Edith Nesbit to write about the adventures of three children and the railway in her beloved book The Railway Children. Similarly, romantic poets such as Byron, Coleridge and Wordsworth wrote about the inspirational beauty of the ‘untamed’ countryside. Wordsworth famously claims these green spaces are “a sort of national property, in which every man [and woman] has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy”.
Words from LDA Design Baseline Feasibility Document.
SITE ANALYSIS //
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT //
The project had a heavy emphasis on community engagement. Below are a few images from several sessions held throughout different feasibility study phases.
Masterplan used for engagement activities.
BASELINE FEASIBILITY CONCEPT //
The feasibility study culminated in a master plan of suggestions for the Urban National Park to allow the community groups to seek funding to make it happen.
