The Horticulture Week Awards have recognised two local projects.

The awards celebrate the work of green space managers, their teams and the stakeholders, in bringing to life a variety of projects.

The Promontory in Battersea Park was shortlisted for the Best Parks Restoration/ Development Project award. The refurbished Promontory opened to the public in February in an overlooked and unused area of the park.

The Friends of Battersea Park donated £30,000 and Wandsworth Council invested £70,000. The area was previously closed off and has been transformed into a landscaped garden. It was designed by architect David Keary of Keary Design Associates in partnership with Enable Parks team.

The Promontory is a piece of embankment that extends out 12 metres into the Thames. Historical records suggest it has always been fenced off from the main part of the park since its construction in the mid -1850s and closed to the public for many decades.

The Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust was the winner of the Best Parks Partnership – Third Sector.

This is awarded to the project that best demonstrates a successful partnership between multiple public or third sector organisations which aims to champion access to green space services.

The Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust was originally set up as a limited company in 2012 and was granted charitable status the following year. The Wandle Valley Regional Park consists of over 40 green spaces which extend across the London Boroughs of Wandsworth, Sutton, Merton and Croydon.

Achievements include 32 green space projects, six river restorations which have improved habitat for wildlife, more than 60 tonnes of rubbish gathered during 20 clean ups,1,192 events involving over 39,000 participants, securing agreements with significant landowners for a coordinated approach to dealing with invasive non-native plant species, and the River Wandle being the first

London river to be granted Good Ecological Potential status.

Wandsworth Council’s cabinet member for community services and open spaces, Steffi Sutters, said: “We have invested £840,000 in Battersea Park and the Promontory is the latest scheme to have benefited. Battersea Park is very special, and it’s wonderful that people can enjoy this part of it again.

“It’s also fantastic news that the Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust are getting the recognition they deserve. They have worked with multiple boroughs and many other partners to create a new regional park that hundreds of thousands of people can enjoy. It has put the Wandle once again back in the heart of the communities through which it flows.”