Focus of work
The London Parklet Campaign, funded by FIT in 2021 and 2022, invited communities to reimagine their local streets by creating pop-up parklets, with car parking spaces taken over to enable people to sit and talk, eat their lunch, or enjoy their leisure in any number of ways.
The campaign aimed to draw attention to the huge amount of public space taken up by on-street car parking in London and to suggest some of the many better things that some of that space could be used for.
The campaigners wanted to build on the tremendous success of London’s ‘streeteries’ – new seating areas built in car parking spaces to support bars and restaurants during the pandemic – by seeking to apply the same concept to residential areas. As well as their obvious social benefits, parklets can help address climate change by greening the urban environment and providing extra storm drainage.
