Mile End Park combines tranquil green spaces with sport, leisure, art and play facilities for the whole community to enjoy. Designed by Tibbalds TM2.
'This park is really nice. I usually come here with my mates to play football or cricket. It feels great to have a place like this.' (Local resident)
'We always come here with the children. They like it very much, specially the fountain. If I do not see them they would get in for a dip.' (Local resident)
Ninety acres of linear open space link two parts of the park and form an invaluable green chain of open space and tranquillity through the heart of London's East End, running north-south along a mile of the Grand Union Canal.
Before its refurbishment the park was a bleak, fragmented, under-used open space in the centre of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, an authority with a large population and little good quality open space.
The park now also provides safe and attractive pedestrian and cycle routes, significantly contributing to pollution reduction where neighbouring roads are heavily used and congested.
