In 2024 we hope to begin work on a new public garden on the doorstep of the Museum at the centre of the wider public realm project in partnership with Lambeth Council which we have code-named ‘Lambeth Green’.
This new visualization shows the collaboration between landscape designer Dan Pearson and architect Mary Duggan to create a new space with a ‘village green’ at its centre for activities such as Neighbours Day or just to sit and relax in a sheltered, safe and lush space; set into the wall of this new garden would be rooms for volunteers, and horticultural trainees. This scheme would also make the approach to the Museum more accessible to visitors using wheelchairs.
Transport for London’s plan to replace the existing roundabout with a set of traffic lights opens up new spaces for pedestrians at this prominent junction. We imagine these as opportunities for new street plantings as an approach to the Museum – and Lambeth. The beds you see in the foreground may seem small in the picture but in real life would be back garden-size chunks of Dan Pearson’s planting for everyone to enjoy .
In a future newsletter we will share historic images of Lambeth High Street, which will be an inspiration to bringing nature and neighbourliness to the centre of London.