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• Mayor announces £6m funding to improve London’s parks

• Date:

  23rd June 2008

• Contact:

  Sarah Egerton

• Organisation:

  The Civic Trust

The Mayor of London has announced a £6 million funding package to clean up and improve London’s rundown green spaces with Londoners getting the final say on which areas will benefit.

While many of London’s parks, commons, heaths and public gardens are attractive, welcoming and fly the Green Flag with pride, there are many green spaces in the capital that are not being used because they are shabby, and people feel unsafe in them. The ‘Priority Parks’ funding will help to regenerate the most deserving of London’s green spaces across the capital over the next four years, providing a boost to local communities and making neighbourhoods safer. The funding has been made available by scrapping the mayor’s official newsletter, The Londoner, to fund the Priority Parks project and a major tree planting scheme in London.

Londoners will have the chance to vote online for which green spaces will benefit from the funding.

Boris Johnson said: “Although most of our borough councils are doing their best to maintain green spaces, the funding they work with is often limited. By cancelling The Londoner newspaper, we will instead be able to inject much-needed money into improving the most neglected parks and gardens across London as well as planting 10,000 new street trees.

‘This will have a host of benefits, not only making these areas more pleasant places to spend time, but also helping to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour. Often simple improvements, such as more bins, more entrances, increased lighting and litterbins, can help local people re-claim their local parks and gardens.”