The Inner City Turns Green; Urban Jungle: Bow Creek Ecology Park, Left, Is One of 11 Public Open Spaces in London to Win a Green Flag Award. It Was Once an Industrial Site. Also Honoured Was Trinity Square Gardens, Top Right, and Weavers Fields

Byline: ELIZABETH HOPKIRK

A PARK created on industrial wasteland in inner London is today named as one of the best in Britain.

Bow Creek Ecology Park is sited on a tight bend on the River Lea near Canning Town, with a Docklands Light Railway line running through the centre.

The site has been transformed into a wildlife haven and educational garden with reedbeds, ponds and meadows filled with butterflies, dragonflies and kingfishers.

Today it was awarded a Green Flag along with 150 other public open spaces in the capital recognising it as one of the best in the country.

The number of London winners has risen 34 per cent this year, …

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Publication information: Article title: The Inner City Turns Green; Urban Jungle: Bow Creek Ecology Park, Left, Is One of 11 Public Open Spaces in London to Win a Green Flag Award. It Was Once an Industrial Site. Also Honoured Was Trinity Square Gardens, Top Right, and Weavers Fields. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Evening Standard (London, England). Publication date: July 17, 2008. Page number: 25. © Not available. COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale Group.

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