Let's Grow! Brampton Park

We have been contributing to the Brampton Park community meetings that started in October 2020, as part of the community engagement programme run by the East Ham Community Neighbourhood Team. 
The aim is to create a community garden and growing space that makes use of unused parkland.

ClimateYouChange members have been working on how to effectively include climate change mitigatory and adaptation measures, plus environmental protections. These include using the project as an educational resource, incentivising increased food and wildflower growing in home gardens, maximising carbon drawdown, using sustainable infrastructural materials, effective water management, soil improvement, bio-diverse plant promotion, pollinator help, wildlife corridors and reducing flood risk.

We have written and shared detailed documents with the council on the above, alongside practical considerations to help ensure the project’s success and guard against potential obstacles. These include containerised perennial plant solutions for an existing hard standing area, avoiding barriers to implementation, site security and resident management, anti-theft measures, including the use of unrecognisable plants, disease and pest mitigation, tree and plant selection criteria, maximised harvest output, diverse promotional tools and creating local buy-in, to name but a few.