This week is national Love Parks Week. Organised by the Tidy Britain Group, it’s an annual celebration of the green and open spaces that are right on our doorsteps. The ones that many of us take for granted. With more than 120 parks and open spaces in Hounslow, our borough has plenty to celebrate. In
Boston Manor Park has been hitting the headlines recently, with the manor house having a starring role in TV documentary Heritage Rescue. With the renovation of the manor house nearing completion and the park also undergoing a transformation, these are exciting times for Boston Manor Park. Here, as part of our Love Parks Week series,
Hounslow Council and its partners are transforming the borough’s parks through a series of regeneration masterplans. One of these to benefit from this programme is Watermans Park in Brentford. The new-look Watermans has new play facilities, improved access and footpaths, outdoor meeting and recreational spaces and much more. The Friends of Watermans Park has been an important partner
As part of our series of features for Love Parks Week, we asked Paul Wood, author of London is a Forest, to tell us about his favourite open space in Hounslow. My book, ‘London is a Forest’ takes the form of seven urban forest trails which follow routes in or out from the centre of
