NORTHALA FIELDS - PLACES TO VISITIN NORTH WEST LONDON

 



Northala Fields is a park located in Northolt, in the London Borough of Ealing. It was opened in 2008 and consists of four artificial hills standing next to the A40 Western Avenue, as well as several fishing lakes, a large field area a children's play area and an adjacent café. The hills were constructed using rubble from the demolition of the original Wembley Stadium, which was closed in 2000 and demolished in 2003. The park was created as part of the Northolt and Greenford Country Park project, and backs onto the older Rectory Park.

The name "Northala" is how the old manor of Northall (Northolt) was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086.

It is situated on what was the Royal Borough of Kensington Playing Fields after being leased to them in 1938. The section of the Ealing Road that formed the eastern perimeter was then renamed Kensington Road. The nearest station is Northolt which is 1.14 km away from the park.

orthala Fields, in the London Borough of Ealing, is a completely new park and one of the most exciting and significant park developments in London for many years. Northala Fields was first opened to the public in March 2008 and officially opened by the Mayor of Ealing, Cllr lan Green, in September 2008. The new park has already won its first Green Flag.

  The innovative £5.5m project began in 2000 with Ealing Council's decision to transform derelict land alongside the A40 at Northolt that was once Kensington and Chelsea's playing fields. The council agreed that local residents should be actively involved in the design of the site and the Northolt and Greenford Countryside Park Society members were key players.

The Council recruited a firm of consultants, LDA Design, led by landscape architect Peter Fink, who came up with a solution which included the creation of four man-made hills on the south side of the A40 road, which runs along the edge of the park, to shield the main part of the park from the noise and visual pollution of the road.

Mr Fink realised that a number of huge civil engineering projects were about to get under way in west London, including the redevelopment of Wembley stadium and a giant shopping centre at White City. So he and knew the builders would need to get rid of large amounts of what is known in the trade as spoil or "muck away".

"We offered to take all this spoil at our site, charging between £70 and £90 per lorryload, which meant the developers only had to haul it 10 miles rather than 100 miles to a landfill site," says Mr Fink. This process reduced the overall "carbon footprint" of sites such as Wembley and White City.

   Northala Fields is a country park beside the A40 with four circular artificial hills. It was designed by the urban design and landscape architecture firm . The landforms were built with 65,000 lorry loads of waste material from the demolition of the old Wembley Stadium (closed in 2000). The name 'Northala' was used for this site in the Domesday book (1086). Creating the hills provided a disposal site for the rubble, which paid for the new park.


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