Lambeth Council’s parks team have been working hard on their maintenance and improvements programme at the park which is between Herne Hill and Tulse Hill.
The events area in Brockwell Park hosted the free community event, the Lambeth Country Show, in June welcoming more than 120,000 people, as well as six ticketed events at the end of May and the beginning of June. Heavy rain during one event impacted some sections of the grass.
Those impacted areas have now been almost completely repaired, following works that were paid for by Brockwell Live who hosted the events and ran the Lambeth Country Show in partnership with the council.
The final grass seed planting is being completed this week and should see results soon. This week the council is also improving a football pitch at the park with a new type of grass seed that promises to create an even better playing surface for local youth teams to play on.
Running the Lambeth Country Show in partnership saved the council £700,000 and helped keep it as a free community event. Another £200,000 from the partnership is being invested in Brockwell Park for works to restore a Victorian clocktower, wooden shelter restoration and other landscaping projects. These are some of the direct and indirect financial benefits that the festival season brings to the park.
Lambeth Council puts £500,000 a year into maintaining Brockwell Park which has won numerous awards including a Green Flag given by Keep Britain Tidy in line with the international standard for high quality parks and green spaces as well as several London in Bloom awards.
Once restoration works are complete this week, some further work is set to be undertaken after the summer holidays to ensure the grass is fully back to its best.
Progress on the remaining recovery work and the extra improvements being will be monitored closely over the next three months and a community drop in session will be held after summer.
