Green Neighbourhoods

The council is taking a progressive and pioneering approach to tackling the climate and ecological emergency through the delivery of several Green Neighbourhood pilots (the first phase being Church End & Roundwood; and Kingsbury).

The goal is to focus our resources in these pilot areas to test how they can become as environmentally sustainable as possible, and to inform how the whole borough could be net zero and more biodiverse by 2030. The ethos of this programme is to be positive and transformative and to make changes which benefit residents’ lives, involving residents and communities in the delivery of this programme and encouraging sustainable behaviours.

Brent Council’s Cabinet approved the Green Neighbourhoods Action plan in January 2023, following a period of community engagement in Autumn 2022 which obtained ideas from local residents on what they would like to see as part of the Green Neighbourhoods project in their local area.

Action plan

You can view the map and action plan for the Church End and Roundwood Green Neighbourhood. 

The Church End & Roundwood Action Plan included 34 actions when it was adopted. The plans to deliver on these actions have been developed and it will remain as a live document throughout its delivery (February 2023 to December 2024).

The aim is to embed environmental sustainability at the heart of day-to-day life in these locations. The plans will be phased to enable delivery of quick wins that form part of an overall vision to be fully delivered within two years.

Delivered Improvements

• New permanent School Street Schemes at John Keble, Leopold and St Mary’s CofE Primary Schools.
• New trees planted on Church Road High Street.
• Greening at Hawkshead Road outside Leopold Primary school, including rain garden and seating.
• Our first re-use and repair pop-up event which took place at the Church End & Roundwood Unity Centre in February 2023.
• New Library of Things at Willesden Green Library (linked to project, estimated 20 min walk from Church End & Roundwood Green Neighbourhood).
• New Bike Hangars on Springwell Avenue, Burns Road, Crownhill Road, Franklyn Road, Essex Road, Chadwick Road, St Albans Road, Hawkshead Road
• New Electric Vehicle Charge Points on Drayton Road, Longstone Avenue, West Ella Road, Essex Road, Roundwood Road, Charlton Road, Laybourne Road
• Development of a local Climate Community Action Group which meets on a regular basis
• Area-wide Green Corridor feasibility study (see below for further details and the main report)
• Community Orchard at Longstone Avenue Open Space

Have your say on new community garden

As part of the Church End and Roundwood Green Neighbourhood Programme a community garden is being proposed on the land off Wharton Close.

A workshop with residents was held in January to discuss options, including preferred locations, design themes, and community management of the space. The workshop highlighted the land off Warton close, owned by Peabody, as the preferred location.

Following the initial workshop, a second drop in event was organised to invite Peabody residents living adjacent to the site to share their views and support for a community garden.

Informed by these engagement activities, two concept designs are being developed for the community garden.

On Saturday 11 May, 2pm-6pm, a drop-in event is being held at the proposed site.

Church End and Roundwood residents are invited to join and share their thoughts on preferred designs and discuss community management of the garden.

Brent Council will be joined by representatives from Peabody, Urban Growth Learning Gardens, and LEAP London.

For those unable to join the drop in event, an online survey will be made available on this page from Tuesday 14 May. 

Action plan

You can view the map and action plan for the Kingsbury Green Neighbourhood.

The adopted Kingsbury Action Plan included 28 actions. The area action plans, to deliver on this work, have been developed and will remain as live documents during delivery (February 2023 to December 2024).

The aim is to embed environmental sustainability at the heart of day-to-day life in these locations. The plans will be phased to enable delivery of quick wins that form part of an overall vision to be fully delivered within two years.

Progress to date (completed)

• New permanent School Street Schemes.
• New green infrastructure improvements to Leybourne Open Space.
• Delivery of the first re-use and repair pop-up event in Kingsbury which took place at the Kingsbury Temple in July 2023.
• Development of a local Climate Community Action Group which meets on a regular basis.

The council cannot tackle the climate emergency alone, we need all our communities in Brent to take part and play a role in protecting the planet – we especially want to hear from those in the Church End/Roundwood and Kingsbury Green Neighbourhood areas!

We are still welcoming new members to our local Climate Community Action Group for Church End, Roundwood and Kingsbury, if you would like to join email your details to: climateemergency@brent.gov.uk.

If you would like to be kept up to date on progress on the Green Neighbourhoods, and on what both the council and other organisations are doing to tackle climate change in Brent, please sign up to the Brent Environmental Network. We currently have 3600+ members across Brent. You can do this by subscribing to our e-newsletter – make sure you tick the ‘Brent Environmental Network' box!