King's Road Park
Transforming a former gasholder site into a thriving, rewilded, and community-focused neighbourhood
Fulham, London, UK
King’s Road Park is a landmark 16-acre regeneration scheme in Fulham, transforming the former Imperial Gasworks into a vibrant, rewilded, and community-focused neighbourhood.
Delivered across five phases and comprising 24 development plots, the masterplan will deliver 1,847 new homes, including both private and affordable housing and 100,000 square feet of commercial space, set within 6-acres of high-quality public realm and green spaces.
At the heart of the development is a new public park, designed as part of a wider landscape-led vision that places nature and well-being at its core. The park will feature the world’s oldest surviving gasholder, reimagined as a striking heritage landmark and central gathering space.
Gillespies was appointed to create a landscape-led masterplan for the entire development that would deliver high-quality and well-managed green spaces for the community to enjoy, as well as landscape design for the subsequent plots, which include a private landscaped podium for Phase 1.
Our design of the landscaped public park embodies a new approach to place-making; a landscape built on innovative green technology that is fully integrated into the residential environment and engaging the new community with the processes that govern the natural world, encouraging sustainable living and delivering an environment that is peaceful, protected, inspiring and tranquil. The park consists of a series of large lawn areas for people to enjoy walking, playing or relaxing, alongside pocket parks for those who desire tranquillity and privacy, and a range of informal play elements and dedicated play areas for children. Creating communal orchards and grow gardens in the northern corner of the park will provide both an educational and gardening resource for the community, encouraging stewardship of the space. The park will also house the oldest gasholder globally, which will form a central feature in the park for visitors.
Sustainability is central to the development, including solar fields, a sustainable drainage and filtration network expressed as an interlinked series of pools and water elements and over 1.85 acres of green roofs that create a sustainable and biodiverse closed-loop system.
The development will play a key role in enhancing connectivity between King’s Road and Imperial Wharf through a significant new public realm and improved connections, as well as improve people’s well-being through creating outdoor spaces conducive to more active lifestyles and to learning, working, and child development with space to play, garden and learn about natural processes.
Project details
Title
King's Road Park
Client
St William
Status
Under Construction
Project team
EPR