Category: The Park

  • Tier 3 and Queen’s Park’s facilities

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    London moves into Tier 3: Very High Alert

    From December 16, London has been placed in Tier 3: Very High Alert to reduce the spread of coronavirus. Most of the facilities can continue to operate with strict measures in place to reduce the risk of virus transmission.

    This includes:

    • Parliament Hill Athletics Track
    • Tennis courts at Parliament Hill, Golders Hill Park and Queen’s Park
    • The Parliament Hill Fields Lido
    • The Highgate Men’s Bathing Pond and the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing
    • Pond
    • Small weddings – 15 people or less (Golders Hill Park and Queen’s Park)
    • Pitch and Putt (Queen’s Park)
    • Guardians Gym (at the Lido)
    • Trim Trails at Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood and Queen’s Park
    • Football and Rugby
    • Volunteering
    • Licenced Events e.g. Be Military Fit and the Hampstead Winter Swimming Club
    • Cafés (takeaway only)

    We have had to close the Children’s Farm at Queen’s Park and the Peggy Jay Centre on Hampstead Heath. Keat’s House will also be temporarily closed until further notice.

    The public toilets remain open as will the playgrounds and car parks. We will continue to empty litter bins, although we do still ask that visitors take their rubbish and waste away with them wherever possible.

    Queen’s Park, Highgate Wood and Golders Hill Park (including the Hill Garden & Pergola) opening hours will remain as advertised.

    We expect to be busy during this next phase of the Coronavirus restrictions as people continue to socialise outdoors and we will continue to use our social

    media channels to remind visitors to follow the Government advice, the byelaws and to be considerate towards staff and other visitors.

    Please share this update with your contacts and thank you for your support during this time.

    For more information follow us online:
    Twitter: @CityCorpHeath, @CoLQueensPark
    Facebook: Hampstead Heath Official, Queen’s Park Official

    website: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/hampsteadheath www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/queenspark www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/highgatewood

    Best wishes

    Anne Fairweather
    Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood & Queen’s Park Committee

    Bob Warnock
    Superintendent of Hampstead Heath

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  • Queen’s Park Book Festival returns to the park on 29th & 30th June 2019

    See qpbookfest.com for more memories of last year’s hugely successful return of the festival to the park after a pause of six years. The festival is affiliated to Queen’s Park Area Residents’ Association.

  • Drop off your Christmas tree in Queen’s Park for recycling

    Take it by 13th January to the fenced off area by the woodland walk (Chevening Road/ Kingswood Avenue gate) and stack it there with the others. Please do not leave your tree by the yard gate, as you may well have done in previous years, or at any of the other park gates.

    Please tell your friends and neighbours.

    The tree will be collected by Brent Council week beginning 14 January and turned into mulch.

    Alternatively, if you have a green garden waste bin, you can chop your tree up and put it in there. Do not leave it whole beside the bin.

    And whatever you do, please do not just dump it in the street!