London’s Pocket Parks: Fleet Valley Pocket Park, WC1

A new pocket park has appeared in Farringdon, replacing a former bland paved plaza with plants, seats and some interesting pocket hills to climb up.This new pocket park comprises a number of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) features that are designed to capture surface water flow in an area that was previously completely paved over. The pocket park has replaced the previously impermeable pavement with permeable paving and surrounding vegetation and surface water is now redirected from the sew