News from the City Gardens
Our newsletter What's New in the City Gardens is
produced throughout the year and provides updates on events
happening in the green spaces within the City as well as a topical
horticultural note. The latest copy can be downloaded from the link
below.
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What's new in the City Gardens Autumn
2010 (282kb)
Our survey said...
With responsibility for over 150 widely differing parks,
piazzas, churchyards and gardens scattered around the City of
London, it is important for the City Gardens section to ensure that
each of these best serves the City’s community, according to its
individual situation and potential. At the end of 2008 a residents
survey was carried out in the City - The Place Survey’s results
highlighted that only 59% of residents were satisfied with Open
Spaces.
To find out why, we conducted a face to face survey with 1, 000
people. It found that 81% of you use the Open Spaces in the
City and that, on the whole are happy with what we do. 99.5%
of respondents said that the standard of maintenance was fair, good
or very good. Accessibility, cleanliness, attitude of our
staff and availability of useful information also scored
highly.
So how can we improve?
Opening hours - some gardens in the City were
closed at weekends, which was something that residents weren’t
happy about – we are happy to report that Finsbury Circus and
Portsoken Street are now open at weekends.
New playgrounds for the City – thanks to
funding from Play England’s play builder project new play
facilities are currently being built at Portsoken Street Garden and
Tower Hill Gardens. The new play areas will be open from early
April 2010.
Thank you to all who took the time to answer our questions – we
will be working with the City’s other departments to ensure that we
meet your needs in the future. We have produced a summary report
detailing the main results of the survey and what action we are
taking which can be downloaded below.
City Gardens User Survey 2009 Summary Report
(285kb)