London National Park City is a community-grassroots movement inspired by the family of National Parks by applied at city scale. Greater London's public green space covers 16.8% of the city, and the aim of the movement is to highlight the importance of green space in the capital in order to increase and protect it.
In 2015, Julian Tollast, our Head of Masterplanning & Design, got involved with the campaign to make London the world's first National Park City, which with the support of the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, was successful in 2019.
New policies are being implemented with the objective of increasing green space in the capital to cover 50% of the city by 2050; Wembley Park is already on its way to achieving this target, when on completion, circa 50% on plan will be green or blue space.
Julian is now a Trustee of the National Park City Foundation, which provides leadership in coordinating and developing the vision for the movement.
To celebrate LNPC’s second birthday and to show our support for the scheme, we
installed the first of a National Park City branded wayfinding system in Union Park
South when it opened in summer 2021. It is hoped that similar wayfinding assets will
be replicated at other existing and new open spaces across London, connecting these
‘green’ and ‘blue’ public spaces and amplifying the significance of LNPC’s work across
the capital.
The principles of London National Park City: 'Connect, Create, Champion' to make the outdoors 'Greener, Wilder, Healther' are very much aligned with the principles that have underpinned Quintain's work at Wembley Park.
Julian Tollast, Head of Masterplanning & Design
