FRIENDS OF BURGESS PARK protect | promote | enhance

At our next meeting on 7 September 2010, representatives from the East Walworth Safer Neighbourhoods Team and Southwark Community Wardens will be attending to discuss safety and security in the park.

Please join us to talk about: how we can improve safety in the park, the impact of cctv cameras in the park, safety when the revitalisation work starts, dogs and attacks on wildlife.

The meeting will take place at the Burgess Park Community Sports Ground on
Cobourg Road, SE5


Friends of Burgess Park have a
Facebook page

Please join and ask your friends to join too.

Latest on the Burgess Park revitalisation plan

There will be consultation opportunities in September to look at more detailed designs of the project including: entrances, boundaries, footpaths, signage, furniture, bins, railing removal and a circuit route; play opportunities, both formal and imaginative play; topography; biodiversity and ecology, trees, St. George’s Gardens, the New Church road wild area; and lake improvements. Dates and times to be announced soon.

In response to the latest round of consultation the council and LDA architects  presented a revised proposal for the improvements to Burgess Park.
Download the latest version of the phase one proposal from Southwark.



The latest concept for revitalising Burgess Park by LDA Design, landscape architects.

Southwark  Council are still consulting on the project with meetings and questionnaires. Don't miss out on these opportunities to get involved. Go to the Southwark Council consultations page.

Link to the Southwark Council web page where the latest plans are detailed.

More information about the revitalisation and the Friends of Burgess Park statement on the future of Burgess Park can be found here.


@Burgess Park on twitter:

Find out what's happening in Burgess Park

Check out the results of

our summer plant survey



Beating the Bounds

Consultation Report

You told us which bits of Burgess Park are important and why and what you would like to see done with the money that Southwark has been awarded -  £2 million from the Mayor, Boris Johnson. With some extra money from Aylesbury NDC there is £6 million to spend on the park.

See the latest wishes and our completed report.

Friends of Burgess Park 
meetings 2010

Our regular meetings are usually held on the first Tuesday of the month at 7pm
at the Burgess Park Community Sports Ground on
Cobourg Road, SE5


Meetings

7 September