Hammersmith Grove's Parklets Win Top Prize at Healthy Streets Awards

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Judges impressed by four small community space along on busy main road

Hammersmith Grove's 'parklets' have won a top
prize at the prestigious Healthy Streets Awards.

The judges were impressed by the parklets, which were opened in summer providing four small plant-filled community spaces created on eight former parking spaces along the busy Hammersmith Grove.

The scheme is a collaboration between Hammersmith BID, better known as HammersmithLondon, Hammersmith and Fulham Council, local business Medidata, which is based in 12 Hammersmith Grove and the Mayor of London.

Medidata funded the building of one of the parklets, while HammersmithLondon funds the parklets’ ongoing
maintenance.

At last week's awards at London's Guildhall, which recognise and reward excellence in the planning and delivery of improvement to Healthy Street across the country, the prizes were handed out by Val Shawcross, former Deputy Mayor for Transport.

The team won the Best Healthy Streets Business Improvement District Project award for their work creating the UK’s First Business Parklets.

Patricia Bench, BID Director at HammersmithLondon, said: "The whole team are absolutely delighted to collect this award for a project we are immensely proud of.

"The parklets are now a wonderful and much-used part of the town. All of us at the BID are 100 per cent committed to making Hammersmith a cleaner, greener and generally more pleasant place to work, live and visit."

The parklets in Hammersmith are part of the BID’s wider commitment to deliver green
spaces, cleaner air, and improving the environment with the overall aim to make the
borough the greenest in Britain.

Other initiatives include the Low Emission Neighbourhood project, which as we revealed last week, aim to improve the space under the Hammersmith Fyover.

Also being considered are a taxi rank for electric taxis only and a 'last mile' courier club to reduce the amount of polluting delivery journeys by switching to pedal power, or electric vehicles, for the final leg.

The green spaces on Hammersmith Grove followed the installation of the borough's first parklet, outside Brackenbury Deli in Brackenbury Village, which won Best Innovation at the Healthy Streets Awards 2017.

 

You can see more pictures of the parklets in the council's Flickr gallery.

July 6, 2018