Excellent news… We have just heard that King’s Cross Community Projects has been awarded £50,000 by LB Islington towards the cost of the Wharfdale Road Greenwall Project. The council approved the money as part of a section 106 agreement to contribute to environmental improvements in the area, as I’m sure you’ll agree, greening a section of the King’s Cross gyratory system will achieve just that.

We will be meeting with LB Islington in the next couple of weeks to agree our project plan, following which we’ll make a start. Our first priority is likely to be raising the remaining £50,000 needed! It might sound a lot for a Greenwall, but we are talking bespoke public art in the form of corton steel planters, a sculptural steel array creating an imaginative trellis complete with nesting boxes, subtle solar powered lighting, a solar powered automatic sub-irrigation system using rain water stored in reservoirs at roof and ground levels… and much, much more!