A little about the project:
The Renfrew community rain garden project is a sustainable urban drainage project set in the London Borough of Newham.
This beautiful community-scale retrofit rain garden complex is a demonstration project comprising four rain gardens of differing character to show the different benefits they can bring communities.
A variety of conveyance mechanisms also demonstrate different approaches to transferring water to the rain gardens and the natural losses and aesthetic contribution that each offers.
Each rain garden is located in existing communal green space and receives rainwater from adjacent social housing block roofs and in one case the existing service road. There are four rain gardens on the complex, the themes are ‘ornamental garden’; ‘play & wildlife’; ‘productive garden’; and ‘habitat meadow’. The whole system is designed to be as easy to understand as possible whilst requiring minimal and simple maintenance.
These rain gardens provide water attenuation which protects against flooding, whilst also providing a fantastic area for people, biodiversity and play.
The rain garden performance is currently being monitored by the University of East London, and this website is intended to act as a hub for sharing updates on the monitoring results from the project.
This beautiful community-scale retrofit rain garden complex is a demonstration project comprising four rain gardens of differing character to show the different benefits they can bring communities.
A variety of conveyance mechanisms also demonstrate different approaches to transferring water to the rain gardens and the natural losses and aesthetic contribution that each offers.
Each rain garden is located in existing communal green space and receives rainwater from adjacent social housing block roofs and in one case the existing service road. There are four rain gardens on the complex, the themes are ‘ornamental garden’; ‘play & wildlife’; ‘productive garden’; and ‘habitat meadow’. The whole system is designed to be as easy to understand as possible whilst requiring minimal and simple maintenance.
These rain gardens provide water attenuation which protects against flooding, whilst also providing a fantastic area for people, biodiversity and play.
The rain garden performance is currently being monitored by the University of East London, and this website is intended to act as a hub for sharing updates on the monitoring results from the project.
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