Target reached!
With the extra funds we can help sew the seeds for parklets in other areas of the ci...
Pompey Parklets
Southsea, England, United Kingdom
Aim
One parklet open! One to go! Help bring our second Pompey Parklet to 'The Broadway' on Highland Road this summer.
The Pompey Parklets team are leading the way in bringing parklets to Portsmouth!
Led by Annabel Innes; Director of Form+Function, Sean Clubb; Senior Associate of IDL Group, and Cllrs Charlotte Gerada and George Fielding – the Pompey Parklets team have successfully installed the city's first parklet on Albert Road and this year will be installing the second, along 'The Broadway' on Highland Road.
See our incredible journey so far on the Pompey Parklets Instagram page: www.instagram.com/pompeyparklets
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Why bring parklets to Portsmouth?
We want to make Portsmouth a greener, cleaner and healthier city, by tackling pollution, contributing to our city achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2030, and supporting urban biodiversity.
Parklets work to:
- increase street greening
- encourage active travel (walking, cycling, scooting)
- support local businesses
- provide outdoor seating to bring our community together
Parklets are where parking and under-used urban spaces are transformed into a community space with benches, community libraries, bike racks, seats and planters.
Over time they instill behaviour change – encouraging residents to use forms of active travel to get to the shops instead of using cars.
They've grown in popularity in other cities like London and Bristol and they work well in places like Portsmouth where green space is scarce.
The greening in the parklets includes native and wildflowers that attract pollinators, helping to create wildlife corridors along our urban streets.
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One parklet open! One to go!
Our first Pompey Parklet on Albert Road (outside Southsea Cycles) is now complete and open for all to enjoy – see the joyous video above! And we now need your help to raise remaining funds to install our second parklet along 'The Broadway' on Highland Road late this summer.
Innovation and change-making always comes with challenges, and a last minute requirement to apply for planning permission for The Broadway site late last year, has had costly knock-on effects for our community project.
We're ELATED to say we have now been granted planning permission, but as there has been a year gap from when we expected to install, we've had to pay for unforeseen storage costs and inflation has hit material prices hard.
So we need to have ONE LAST BIG PUSH to raise funds to cover the deficit in our project and install our second parklet site on Highland Road soon – and enjoy the late summer sunshine with Pompey's wonderful community!
This project is loved and supported by MANY, who we celebrate and thank and who make progressive community action in Portsmouth possible.
Save Our Wild Isles Community Fund has provided £8,488 of match funding
BA Better World Community Fund has provided £4,023 of match funding
This project successfully funded on 22nd August 2023