The lawn at Buckingham Palace
(Picture: PA Archive)A campaign has been launched to turn a strip of Buckingham Palace Gardens into a memorial park for the Queen.
The plan, which was first proposed in 2015 to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday, would see an arch knocked through the wall of the palace on Grosvenor Place and a new perimeter wall built around the rest of the gardens.
The Buckingham Palace Park Project, which is independent of the royal family, was founded by campaigner Stefan Simanowitz who said: “We had hoped this part of the Palace Gardens would be bequeathed to the nation by the Queen herself, but now – to mark her passing – the proposai is now to create a new Royal Park as a living legacy to our longest-serving Monarch.
“As this period of official national mourning comes to an end, our thoughts turn to how we will mark Her Majesty’s memory, we are hopeful that this project might act as both a fitting tribute to the Queen as well as a welcome new green space in a congested corner of London.”
Antonio Pisano, the architect working on the scheme, said his proposals “reflect Her Majesty’s love of nature and try to capture it in a beautiful walled garden, carved from just a sliver of the 42-acre Buckingham Palace Gardens”.
He added: “It will be an act of care towards London and its unique, fragile yet resilient ecosystem.”
