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• Managing Organisation:

  London Wildlife Trust

• Contact:

  Tom Clarke

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  02078332311 
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Information about this open space

Camley Street Natural Park is recognised as the UK’s best free-to-enter urban nature reserve. Created in the early 1980’s from a derelict coal drop after a community campaign the Park set the standard by which people and wildlife should be engaged in a city. Much copied, Camley Street continues to shape the future, engaging with the whole community through traditional and innovative methods. Well landscaped the Park is aesthetically pleasing and the biodiversity of the Park is surprisingly diverse; marsh sow thistle, reed warbler and lesser stag beetle are all present. The Park runs a dynamic volunteer programme that engages a wide range of people. The graduate trainee programme has provided capacity for the project to reach beyond its boundaries. In the next few years the Park will undergo a facelift to ready itself for the opening of phase one of Kings Cross Central, the neighbouring regeneration of 67 acres of goods yards.