London’s Pocket Parks: Princes Circus, WC1

A rather shabby pavement space in central London has been turned into a pocket park, with loads more planting and softer wooden seating replacing an ugly brick slab that used to dominate the area.This is Princes Circus, a name that few people know applies to this patch of land which was once an isolated triangle-shaped roundabout, but later had one side pedestrianised, and now has had the other side pedestrianised as well.
What dominated the area though was a low concrete and brick slab of a str