Myatt's Fields
Planting day in the greenhouse
Saturday 11th September. 10am to 1pm
Help us maintain the plants we’ve grown over the summer and plant autumn and winter vegetables. All ages welcome to this free session.
New children’s building in Myatt’s Fields Park
Saturday 18th and 19th September: Open House Weekend 10am to 1pm both days
10am to 1pm: Open House Weekend: our new building next to the playground is being held up as an example of the great architecture available in London.
Everyone is welcome to come and look around inside the building as part of the architectural festival held throughout London to celebrate outstanding architecture.
The new building, which was designed by award winning architects, Knox Bhavan, will house the park’s One O’Clock Club as well as a range of activities for families and children.
Saturday 18th September: Afro Cuban band and Caribbean barbeque 1pm to 3pm
We will be celebrating the opening of the building with a Caribbean barbeque and a performance on the bandstand by Afro-Cuban band Cuartato Lokito. Everyone welcome to this free event.
Saturday 18th September: Formal opening of the children’s building: 3pm to 5pm
Families are invited to the formal opening of the building, with ribbon cutting at 3.30pm and free cake and refreshments provided by the park’s café.
We would be very grateful for volunteers to help during the festivities on 18th September. We need:
- people to give out leaflets at the children’s building from 10am to 1pm;
- stewards during the music event from 1pm to 3pm and
- helpers during the formal opening from 3pm to 5pm.
- Cake bakers to donate cakes for Saturday and Sunday
Please contact Victoria Sherwin
Restoration of Myatt's Fields Park
A £3.4 million whole-park restoration has begun in Myatt’s Fields Park, Knatchbull Road.
The restoration, which includes a new playground, the restoration of historic features such as the bandstand and roundhouse as well as a refreshment kiosk and wildlife area, is expected to be completed in December 2008. Plans also include a range of community activities and events. Work will start on anew children’s building in February 2009, to be completed in August 2009.
Work began with the playground in November 2007, with contractors removing surfacing, play equipment and the old toilet block before putting in new equipment and surfacing by July 2007.
Lambeth’s first water play opened in the playground in September, and includes spouts and sprays of water over a map of the world.
The project has been led by a partnership between Myatt’s Fields Park Project Group and Lambeth’s Cultural Services Department. Myatt’s Fields Park Project Group is a group of ten local residents who have been working to regenerate their park since 2000.
Lindsay Avebury, chair of MFPPG, said: “We have been hoping for this for so long and now it is really happening. We are delighted that work has begun and that we will soon be able to provide local people with the first rate facilities they need and deserve”.
The project has received major funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (£1.5 million) and Lambeth (£1.1 million). The playground has received funding from the London Marathon Trust, Western Riverside Environmental Fund, Biffaward and Lambeth Endowed Charities, among others .
For further information contact Lindsay Avebury, chair of Myatt’s Fields Park Project Group on 0207 640 2306 or Victoria Sherwin, development/education officer at Lambeth on 0207 926 0394.
Photos and plans (left to right)
1. People enjoyed a Christmas Christingle service around Myatt’s Fields Park bandstand last Christmas
2. Older people enjoyed afternoon tea with music on the bandstand this summer
3. The park’s bandstand. Vegetables and herbs were growing at Myatt’s Fields Park One O’Clock Club last summer thanks to a gardening project. Children planted seedlings and decorated pots during the first meeting on 19th June 08. Many thanks to Lambeth Community Foundation and Neighbourhood Renewal Unit which funded the course.
4. Masterplan
