A Secret Urban Forest
In the week of Chelsea Flower Show, here's a film made a couple of miles away: of the 450 trees gone wild in the largely abandoned Heygate Estate in the Elephant and Castle.
Having wandered around there a few weeks ago this film really does capture the strangely secluded forest feeling these enclosed squares now possess. The Elephant and Castle Urban Forest website gives much more information about the gardeners who have been working there, and the urban forest adventurers who have been enjoying the space. Sadly it's about to be closed off - builders are due to move in in June, and the whole site is being redeveloped into, what else, executive flats.
Having wandered around there a few weeks ago this film really does capture the strangely secluded forest feeling these enclosed squares now possess. The Elephant and Castle Urban Forest website gives much more information about the gardeners who have been working there, and the urban forest adventurers who have been enjoying the space. Sadly it's about to be closed off - builders are due to move in in June, and the whole site is being redeveloped into, what else, executive flats.
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