Alfred Place Gardens - from pavement to park Share London, 14 March 2022 Alfred Place Gardens - from pavement to park Camden is celebrating the opening of a new park providing an oasis of calm. 14th March 2022 From pavement to park - Alfred Place now open! We are excited to share that the brand new Alfred Place Gardens are now open! Thank you to all local residents and businesses.
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Renamed Alfred Place Gardens, it is Camden Council's first new park in the area for 25 years and part of the borough's major investment into the Tottenham Court Road and Shaftesbury Avenue area through the West End Project. Camden asked LDA Design to rethink eight key streets and spaces in central London to make them work for people and for nature. Alfred Place Gardens - from road to green space March 21, 2022 Damian Holmes DESIGN AREAS, Featured, Landscape Architect, Landscape Architecture, LDA Design, UK Image Credit: LDA Design Until works began, Alfred Place was an ordinary, vehicle dominated back street parallel to Tottenham Court Road. Alfred Place Gardens makes an important contribution to the West End Project, the biggest council-led public realm and transport scheme the borough has ever seen. It is addressing traffic congestion, road safety, poor air quality and limited access to open space and nature in this area, shown to be so important during the pandemic. Alfred Place Gardens has been transformed into a tranquil, richly planted, and welcoming park, with generous seating, biodiverse planting and shade-giving mature trees. It is the first new park in the area for 25 years. Read the full news here. Check also the 2023 Public Projects from Landzine Award here. Recommended by Luisa Bravo
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Alfred Place Gardens - from tarmac to treasure - Connecting people and place through landscape | LDA Design Alfred Place Gardens - from tarmac to treasure 17 March 2022 "The opening of a totally new park in the midst of a bustling city centre is a cause for celebration. Alfred Place Gardens is a tranquil, richly planted, and welcoming park in London's West End, situated alongside Tottenham Court Road, between Euston Road and Oxford Street. It is the first new park in the area in 25 years, achieved by reclaiming road space for people and nature. From grey to green Alfred Place Gardens "Alfred Place Gardens represents a radical shift in the way that streets are expected to function. This is urban landscape solving complex challenges, and street redefined as valued place." Tim South, LDA Design Associate and design lead for Alfred Place Gardens Renamed Alfred Place Gardens, it is Camden Council's first new park in the area for 25 years and part of the borough's major investment into the Tottenham Court Road and Shaftesbury Avenue area through the West End Project. Camden asked LDA Design to rethink eight key streets and spaces in central London to make them work for people and for nature.
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London's Pocket Parks: Alfred Place Gardens, WC1 Published 27 April 2022 By Ian Mansfield London's Pocket Parks This is a new linear pocket park in central London that was until a few months ago an unremarkable road used mainly for parking and deliveries. Tuesday, 15th March 2022 The brand new look in Alfred Park Gardens A ROAD in one of Camden's busiest areas has been turned into a new open space. Alfred Place Gardens - close to Tottenham Court Road in Bloomsbury - is being hailed as "the first new park for this part of the borough in a quarter of a century".
In Alfred Place Gardens, a path meanders to provide a leisurely route. Elegant, curved timber seating is designed to spark easy conversations and provide the ideal lunchtime spot in an area. Alfred Place Gardens - a softening of the city. Alfred Place has been transformed into an inviting linear park, a calming, green oasis in one of the busiest parts of the capital. Now renamed Alfred Place Gardens, it is Camden Council's first new park in the area for 25 years. Road space has been turned into high-quality green space, whilst.
Alfred Place… Gardens Council turns road into new park Camden New Journal
The solution Alfred Place Gardens has been transformed into a tranquil, richly planted, and welcoming park, with generous seating, biodiverse planting and shade-giving mature trees. It is the first new park in the area for 25 years. Transformed from a rat-run into a gathering place, Alfred Place Gardens is an example of 'grey to green' conversion, created as part of Camden's wider West End Project. The project has displaced cars in the previously heavily parked street with pedestrian-friendly space, a forest-inspired walkway, play spaces, lawns and an event space
