Project.

Beckenham Place Park

Location: Beckenham, UK
Client: London Borough of Lewisham
Expertise: Landscape Architecture; Urban Design; Civil & Structural Engineering
Completion: 2019
Cost: £5m

Beckenham Place Park is Lewisham’s largest green space at 96 hectares and is home to a wide range of facilities.

Beckenham Place Park is Lewisham’s largest green space at 96 hectares and is home to a wide range of facilities. Considered to be one of the finest wildlife sites in the borough, it contains ancient woodland as well as a variety of other habitats and is a Local Nature Reserve.

We were commissioned to improve the park’s facilities and attract a larger and more diverse audience. The council was awarded £5m of Heritage Lottery Funding to support a comprehensive restoration scheme looking at specific site enhancements to focus best use of the budget.

These included improving the entrances, creating site-wide routes, enhancing the historic parkland and gardens, restoring a large lake and associated wetlands, and conducting a comprehensive review of the tree stock.

Now complete the park has been transformed into the largest public park in South East London, reconnecting the park with its surrounding communities and providing much needed high-quality open green space.

“When you look around the park over the last three years, the transformation you see is amazing ...this is the 260^th anniversary of the park, but it's the first time in its history that it's been open for the whole community.”

Damien Egan, Mayor of Lewisham

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