5.1 SUMMARY OF ENGAGEMENT

User Survey Of Kilburn Grange Park

As a participatory process to discuss our initial design brief, we planned our second community engagement as a series of active conversations with different groups of users in Kilburn Grange Park including active members of Kilburn Community Garden and casual users.

During this visit, we unexpectedly came across the council’s pop up presenting their masterplan for the park’s development that will be implemented in the next 3-5 years. As explained by the architect and council members, the development plan was based on the local people’s feedbacks from previous pop ups, with a focus on Eco Zone, Community Garden, Millennium Circle, Play Area, and Central Lawn. Ironically, moving away from the bright future envisioned by the council developers, we were told by the active members of Community Garden how little the council actually listens to the people and how frustrating and discouraging a community project’s implementation can be due to bureaucratic obstacles.