Taking place in Victoria Park (Grove Road entrance) between 10am and 6pm, visitors will be able to see the latest park plans, while children can enjoy free face painting and donkey rides.
Tower Hamlets Council’s Parks and Open Spaces Team collected the views of more than 1,000 visitors during August and September. The information gained through surveys, footfall counts, consultation meetings and public events has all been used to further develop park plans.
Help shape the future of Vicky Park
Residents can still give their views on multi-million plans to restore Victoria Park.
- View the Masterplan proposed for Victoria Park
- Let us have your views. Complete the on-line survey
The information from special events and through additional surveys will be used to fine-tune the plans developed last year in consultation with local people.
Councillor Abdal Ullah, Lead Member for Cleaner, Safer, Greener at Tower Hamlets Council, said: “Last year we talked to local people to find out what they wanted to see in their park. We developed plans based on their views, which included an urban beach, improved play facilities, better sports pitches, a skatepark, restored heritage, additional café, along with more planting and landscaping.
“These plans helped the council pass stage one of a £5 million Heritage Lottery Fund / Big Lottery Fund bid, and now we need your help to develop the proposals to the final application stage. By telling us what you think of the draft plans and highlighting ideas you have, you’ll help us finalise the plans and make sure that we get them right.”
Tower Hamlets Council is planning to completely restore the park before the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Detailed plans will be submitted to the Parks for People scheme, a £90 million joint project between the Big Lottery Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund. The funding bid, coupled with an investment from the council, would total £12 million.
This will represent the single biggest investment in Victoria Park since its creation in the 1840s.
Latest news
Young Mayor tells younger generation to get involved: Tower Hamlets Young Mayor is encouraging the borough’s younger generation to have their say on multi-million pound plans to improve Victoria Park.
So far more than 1,000 people have given their views on the improvement plans, however Young Mayor, Uma Akther, along with Tower Hamlets Council, is calling on more young people to get involved.
Uma, from Bow is a regular visitor to the park, she wants young people to go online and fill out the short survey on the park’s plans. Read more from the press release.
Be Counted: Visitors to Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets, will be counted by volunteers from the Bow Community Centre over the coming months, as part of the council’s multi-million pound plans to improve the park. Read more from the news story.
Memories of Vicky Park: Londoners are being asked to come forward and share their memories of the capital’s first people’s park – Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets. Whether they remember splashing around in the outdoor art-deco Lido, seeing German prisoners of war housed there during World War II, or enjoying a day of world-class entertainment at one of the park’s fantastic music festivals, Tower Hamlets Council wants to hear from them.
Memories will be used to create an audio history of Victoria Park, that will be available to download, so that visitors can walk around the park and explore its past. As well as interviewing local people, the recording will also include contributions from writers and historians.
To share memories of Victoria Park, contact Barker Langham, who in conjunction with MemoryScape, are
working on behalf of the council to produce the audio walks. Contact Toby Goaman-Dodson on 020 7278
7847 or email toby@barkerlangham.co.uk
View the Masterplan proposed for Victoria Park.
Click on the image and download a PDF (1.8Mb) of the Masterplan.
To get involved come along to some of the special events planned. You can help to plan play provision, look at the design for the new skate park or input into the future list of activities for visitors to the park. Fill in a survey and you’ll be entered into a draw for a meal at a local restaurant of your choice (up to £100 in value).
Special events
Saturday 24 October: Marquee in Victoria Park 10am - 6pm
Saturday 14 November: Project tour around the boroughs
On-line survey
Fill out the on-line survey with your views on the Victoria Park Masterplan.
Fill in the survey and you’ll be entered into a draw for a meal at a local restaurant of your choice (up to £100 in value).
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