Our landscaping strategy at Wembley Park pays homage to Repton's English Landscape Movement, reconnecting with the surrounding network of natural ecosystems and wildlife corridors and providing open space within the heart of Wembley.
Landscape Concept
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Urban trees play an important role in increasing urban biodiversity, providing plants and animals with a favourable habitat, food and protection. Our award-winning, site-wide tree planting strategy has been in place since 2005 and has been developed in recognition of the heritage and the value trees provide for biodiversity, nature, health and memory; the provision of shade, pollution and dust reduction, erosion and control and flood attenuation; and for creating identity, sense of place and legibility within the placemaking context.
Wembley is synonymous as a place that welcomes the world and our Avenue of Champions along Olympic Way celebrates this using matched pairs of trees arranged according to their order of longitude. Our trees are documented using an online inventory system, Curio, which allows us to map and record information and enable the data to be publicly available.
New seven-acre park
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Currently under construction, with the Southern section almost complete, the Park will provide 7-acres of new parkland for the local area, comprising of a mixture of landscape types that respond to the local context. The park is the principle organising space for the lands east of the National Stadium, and an essential part of both the urban design of the area, and to the creation of a rich, biodiverse and sustainable landscape.
A key feature of the park is the pond, an important amenity as well as increasing the opportunity for biodiversity through aquatic and marginal water plants and reed beds
- There is also a swale which caters for daily rainwater runoff from the adjacent hard landscaped areas
- The park will include planting that responds to the change in conditions from north-west to south
- Herbaceous planting, will provide year-round interest along the edges of the rain gardens and meadows, with a variety of species to attract beneficial insects and pollinators
Existing trees that have been relocated from areas of the site where development has already taken place are currently residing in the tree nursery and for the most part will be relocated into the park.
Trees
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Urban trees play an important role in increasing biodiversity, providing plants and animals with a favourable habitat, food and protection.
Our award-winning, site-wide tree planting strategy has been in place since 2005 and has been developed in recognition of the heritage and the value trees provide for biodiversity, nature, health and memory; the provision of shade, pollution and dust reduction, erosion control and flood attenuation; and for creating identity, sense of place and legibility within the placemaking context.
Wembley is synonymous as a place that welcomes the world and our Avenue of Champions along Olympic Way celebrates this using matched pairs of trees arranged according to their order of longitude.
Olympic Way previously accommodated a mixture of Lime and Plane trees, which have been moved to our ‘tree orphanage’ located on Engineers’ Way, fronting North Park. This space accommodates trees from other parts of the site whilst they await a new home.
To better care for our trees, we use an online tree inventory system, Curio, which allows us to map and record information about individual trees, upload photographs of tree condition, and send links to out maintenance teams regarding specific trees on which works need to be carried out.
Our use of Curio also allows us to make our tree data publicly available; either directly via their website, or indirectly through linking to many freely available public apps. Curio details individual trees, providing a range of information and interactive features to help people to explore their local area and learn more about local biodiversity.
Local people can also record their own photos, observations and stories about our trees and other features, highlighting the cultural importance of greenspace and maintaining the sense of community ownership of these important amenities.
Green roofs
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Green roofs can accommodate a wide range of insects associated with dry grasslands and provide important foraging habitats for birds.
All 15 acres of our roof and podium areas are put to use, either accommodating plant and required plant access, providing amenity areas for residents, or providing green and brown roofs to improve biodiversity.
2021 ESG Report: Biodiversity & Natural Capital
