Grow Back Greener

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Grow Back Greener provided six groups with mentoring and funding to design and install new gardens, and to improve biodiversity and food growing with ways to look after the land around us We drew up a Template of Engagement between Lambeth and food growers.

Funded by Mayor of London’s fund, 2020-22.

Participating Estates

Below is a list of the estates we worked with.

St Martin’s Estate

St Martins is a large sprawling estate in Tulse Hill managed by 3 different housing Associations- Notting Hill Genesis,Metropolitan Thames Valley, and Optivo. The Tenants Residents Association were the driving

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Myatt’s Field South

The Myatt’s Field South estate, located between Brixton Road and Camberwell New Road. It has 2 active community gardening groups who have transformed a previously neglected spaces on their estate

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Holland Town Estate

Holland Town Estate is between Vassal road and Camberwell New Road, it is a mixed low rise estate of town houses, bungalows, maisonettes and flats. Many of the properties have

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Vauxhall Gardens Estate

The Vauxhall Gardens Estate can be found a ten minute walk from Vauxhall, Oval and Kennington tube stations on Tyres Street and Bragton Road. The Vauxhall Gardens Estate Residents &

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Ethelred Estate

Located in Kennington, South London, the Ethelred estate has approximately 700 homes situated in a series of 2-5 storey slab blocks and faced in brown brick. The Ethelred Gardening Group

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Central Hill Estate

Located in Gipsy Hill, the Central Hill estate gardening group, started in 2020, is transforming the unused and derelict areas of their estate into food growing spaces, nature spaces, and

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Grow Back Greener Estates

Last month, we announced that we’d been awarded funding. Here’s more news about the project: We are working with six estates – Ethelred, Vauxhall Gardens, Holland Town, Myatts Fields South,

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