August 11th 2024
Lambeth Green is the Garden Museum’s current major project, which will eventually see 5.3 acres of land adjacent to the Museum, transformed into ‘a series of interconnected public green spaces’ – with landscape design by Dan Pearson Studio. The new park is being created in partnership with Lambeth Council and Transport for London.
Phase 1: Old Paradise Gardens – a new healing and community garden; was completed in 2023.
Phase 2: (Could take place this winter) – Transport for London are re-shaping the Lambeth Bridge junction and 300 square metres of what is now road and hard surfacing will become garden and trees.
Phase 3: The redesign of St Mary’s Gardens, with a new pavilion at designed by architect Mary Duggan, which will be used by the Garden Museum’s gardeners and volunteers to maintain the new park and to offer horticultural apprenticeships for young Londoners. The apprentices’ week will be ‘divided between hands-on experience based at the new pavilion and theory classes at Capel Manor College’.
Phase 4: (Estimated: several years away) – re-landscaping of the green areas of the banks of The Thames (as a place for people to gather, and cross to the Museum).
In support of Lambeth Green, starting on 7th October 2024, the Director of the Museum Christopher Woodward, will attempt to swim 63 miles, in the Peloponnese Islands of Greece to raise £250,000. This will be Christopher’s sixth sponsored swim for the Museum.
For full information/to donate, visit the Garden Museum’s website at: https://gardenmuseum.org.uk/swimforlambethgreen/