Landscape & Urban Design Issue 32 2018 | Page 22

MEDITE TRICOYA EXTREME HELPS CREATE URBAN OASIS IN LONDON BRIDGE Marlborough Sports Garden, a (BOST) who coordinated the long-time community recreation regeneration of Marlborough space in London Bridge, has Sports Garden and will continue to been regenerated and reopened, manage it. featuring unique hexagonal planters made from MEDITE® MEDITE® TRICOYA® EXTREME TRICOYA® EXTREME. (MTX) was chosen for its exceptional capabilities to be Transforming the once graffitied extremely hardwearing in outdoor concrete space into an urban conditions, even in contact with oasis, the planters were a central soil for up to 25 years. It’s also feature at the official opening, sustainably manufactured in the UK, attended by British Olympian Tom using FSC certified wood sourced Daley and MP Jo Cox’s sister Kim, from fast-growing pine forests in alongside her parents Mr and Mrs Ireland. Leadbeater. The planters now sit along the edges Some may recognise these of Marlborough Sports Garden, filled planters from this year’s Ecobuild with live trees and plants which exhibition back in March, were kindly donated by Palmstead where they made up a ‘pocket Nursery in Kent. park’ designed by The Edible Bus Stop, an award-winning Between MEDITE SMARTPLY’s landscape architecture and design partnership with The Edible Bus consultancy, in partnership with Stop and BOST’s ongoing agenda MEDITE SMARTPLY. to develop communities and make the London SE1 area a greener, 22 These planters have been donated friendlier place to live, Marlborough to Bankside Open Spaces Trust Sports Garden has been transformed