Down Lane Park

Built

Down Lane Park, Haringey. Photo by Kimbo Fidelo Sito, Levitt Bernstein

The reimagination of an existing park through a process of co-design with the local community transforming a well used park into a new functional landscape that promotes community cohesion.

Down Lane Park is a well-loved greenspace at the heart of a rapidly changing community in Tottenham Hale. Our Masterplan for the park’s renewal evolved through a process of co-design alongside our client Haringey Council (combining both Parks and Regeneration).

The plans to improve the park were created in partnership with the Community Design Group (CDG), a diverse group that represents the local community and provides a range of lived experience.

The CDG’s agreed focus was to shape the masterplan proposals, inform engagement strategy, and build support for designs by channeling feedback from residents and groups who primarily use the park. The delivery of the first two phases were then instructed, drawing upon a successful round of funding from the Mayor of London’s Green and Resilient Spaces Fund.

The project promotes community cohesion and provides respite from the built environment, creating new connections to wider green links, improving biodiversity and ecology.

The project promotes community cohesion and provides respite from the built environment, creating new connections to wider green links, improving biodiversity and ecology.

“Down Lane Park demonstrates how successful co-design, that fuses lived experience with technical expertise, leads to outstanding outcomes. Its qualities include a commitment to meaningful community engagement, a flexible and iterative design approach, creativity at every step, rigorous testing, local stewardship… and much more!” - Landscape Institute Awards Judges