Queen's Park (City of Westminster)

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Queen's Park
Queen's Park (Greater London)
Queen's Park
Queen's Park

Location in Greater London 		Harrow Road shopping street
Harrow Road
region Greater London
London Borough City of Westminster
Ceremonial county Greater London
Traditional county Middlesex
surface 58.38 ha
population 14,122 (2018)
GSS code (Parish / Ward) E04012296 / E05000642
OS -TOID (Parish / Ward) 7000000000044513 / 7000000000011343
ZIP code section W9, W10
Telephone code 020

Queen's Park is a municipality ( Parish ) and also a Ward in the City of Westminster , one of the 32 boroughs of London . Structurally, going back mainly to the second half of the 19th century , it was founded in 2014 as a Parish with the name of a community . Queen's Park is the only parish in the British capital. With the immediately north and west adjoining Queens Park , a district of Brent , there is nothing in common apart from the name. Queen's Park is the original home of the Queens Park Rangers football club .

geography

Rear buildings on the canal

Queen's Park is located in the far northwest of the City of Westminster, adjacent to Ward Harrow Roads . It is surrounded on three sides by areas of other boroughs: in the northeast Kilburn and in the north and west Queens Park as parts of Brent and in the southwest Dalgarno and in the south Golborne , which belong to Kensington and Chelsea . Queen's Park is at the north-west end of Inner London and the center of the British capital is around eight kilometers away.

The border of Queen's Park runs almost continuously in the middle of both sides of built-up streets. The only exceptions are to be found in the southwest: here it runs in the Paddington Canal, which connects the Grand Union Canal with Regent's Canal . Also across from Ladbroke Grove is the east end of Kensal Green Cemetery . With the exception of some public green spaces, Queen's Park is a continuously built-up area.

The GSS code of Queen's Park is E04012296 as a community and as E05000642 Ward, with identical boundaries and an area of 58.38  hectares . The population was 12,563 in 2011 and 14,122 in 2018.

history

Church of St John the Evangelist
Apartment buildings on Droop Street
Community Library on Harrow Road

The area of ​​the later Queen's Park originally comprised mainly the northern part of an exclave belonging to Chelsea . It was surrounded by Willesden , Paddington and Kensington . With the construction of the Paddington Canal, opened in 1801, the southern third was spatially separated from the exclave. The settlement of Kensal New Town was built here between 1835 and 1850 . The northern part remained largely undeveloped until the second half of the 19th century. The oldest structure here is the Kensal House on the north bank of the canal, an Italian-style villa from the 1830s. Where a bridge crossed the canal from Kensal New Town, the church of St John the Evangelist, consecrated in 1843, and some outbuildings, including a school, were built. In addition, before 1865 the existence of a small quay on the canal with a few houses along the parallel Harrow Road and a single building on Kilburn Lane in the far north are proven.

Based on a work published by Edwin Chadwick in 1842 on the general poor health of British workers and the Public Health Act of 1848 based on it, numerous societies were founded that built settlements that were supposed to improve the living conditions of the common people. In this sense, the construction company founded in 1867 and acquired The artizans, Laborers and General Dwellings Company 1874/75 of All Souls College , a region with an area of about 32 hectares and established to 1887 in neo-Gothic style, the 2,200 homes comprehensive settlement Queen's Park Estate . With its two-story row houses, each with its own garden, and the main access roads lined with trees, it is considered a forerunner of the garden city movement . The company also pursued social purposes with its commitment. The rents were comparatively low, there was a library and public baths, among other things, but since one of its founders was close to the abstinence movement, there was no pub . Also in 1874, another company, the United Land Company , acquired the area immediately to the northeast and built it up in the following years, albeit much more densely and separated into better and worse residential areas.

On the railway line leading past Queen's Park to the north, Queen's Park station went into operation in 1879 , and from 1912 the suburban trains of the Watford DC Line and from 1915 also the Bakerloo Line of the subway operated here . On the main thoroughfare, the Harrow Road and Paddington Tramways horse-drawn tram began operating in July 1888 . After the transition to the Metropolitan Electric Tramways in 1904 , the line was electrified. In the mid-1930s, the tram was replaced by a trolley bus .

North of the station was built around a 1887 inaugurated and dedicated to the 50th jubilee of Queen Victoria also Queen's Park called park on time to Willesden and today gehörendem to Brent area from 1897 to 1904 a Queen's Park called residential area. Apart from the name, there is nothing in common here. Up to the beginning of the 20th century, the buildings moved from the other directions to the limits of Queen's Park. In the east, this was based on a settlement called St Peter's Park for the first time in 1865 . The vacant lot in the west, north of the Kensal Green cemetery from Harrow Road to the railway line, has also been closed.

In the following decades, Queen's Park remained largely undisturbed and residential for simple workers. After major damage was caused by the explosion of a land mine in the area of ​​Ilbert and Peach Street during the Second World War , the new residential complex Queen's Park Court was built there in 1951 . In 1964 the Queen's Park Estate was sold to the City of Paddington. There were significant changes in the building stock from the mid-1960s. In 1967 the Greater London Council acquired a larger area in the northeast, mainly in the part built by the United Land Company , in order to increase the housing density there. The 60 houses and other buildings, including the Church of St Jude , were demolished. Instead, the City of Westminster had 29 apartment blocks with 737 apartments built by 1977. Due to structural deficiencies and incorrect planning, the area, named Mozart Estate after one of the streets there, developed into an unpopular residential area with numerous areas considered unsafe, vandalism and a high crime rate . In her 1985 book Utopia on Trial, geography professor Alice Coleman used the area as a case study for her theory that poorly planned social housing causes residents to slide into crime. Finally, between 1992 and 2005, the Mozart Estate was completely redesigned. Some houses were demolished, others rebuilt, and the rest were completely renovated. The building bridges, which connected the individual blocks, but later proved to be problematic, were removed again. Also in the 1970s, an area in the south was demolished and replaced by new buildings. The resulting Harrow Steet Estate with its terraced houses , west of Third Avenue, proved to be unproblematic.

Community structure

Queen's Park is considered a socially weak area. As of 2017, 55 percent of the 5,225 residential units were owned by non-profit organizations or the public sector. Around 40 percent of all residential and commercial space was owned or managed by the City of Westminster at the time.

Much of the community consists of dense residential developments. The economic focus is the eastern part of the Harrow Road, which runs in an east-west direction in the south. There are also a number of shops in the eastern part of Kilburne Lane to the north. This area is around Queen's Park train station. In 2018, 467 companies offered 1780 jobs. Due to its location within a largely closed development, there are other supply offers in the immediate vicinity, partly directly on the opposite side of the street, in one of the neighboring districts.

Religious communities

The parishes of St John and St Luke’s of the Church of England and a branch of the United Reformed Church are available to meet the religious needs of the residents . In addition, since 1998 there has been the Harrow Road Jamme Mosque on Lancefield Street, an Islamic prayer house that is mainly used by Muslims with Bengali roots.

education

Primary School on Droop Street

The educational sector is covered by three primary schools and the secondary St Marylebone Bridge School . There is also a kindergarten, a preschool and a public library.

Recreation, sport and leisure

The only pub: The Flora

After the demolition of the buildings on both sides of Farrant Street and the parallel row of houses along Ilbert Street in 1976, the Queen's Park Gardens was a public green area with sports facilities. The facility is maintained by an association, Friends of Queen's Park Gardens . A boxing club is located in the Meeting Hall . In June 2018, the Moberly Sports Center, which was expanded after renovation, opened on the west side of Kilburn Lane and Chamberlayne Road in Brent . At the same time was near the center of Queen's Park on the southern edge of the Mozart Estate , the sports and leisure center Jubilee Sports Center is closed for the purpose of reconstruction. A demolition of the existing indoor pool is planned, instead living space is to be created here. The decision was politically controversial.

There are a number of smaller public spaces available for events in Queen's Park. One of them is St Judes Hall , the home of the Queens Park Rangers football club . A memorial plaque attached to the building has been a reminder of this since 2011. The gastronomy is poorly developed, the only pub is The Flora . This is believed to be a long-term effect of the abstinence movement that one of the founders of Queen's Park Gardens was part of.

Politics and administration

With the entry into force of the Local Government Act 1888 in the spring of 1889, Chelsea and its exclave moved from Middlesex to the County of London . A little later, the borders were adjusted, from 1901 Queen's Park was part of Paddington as a ward . With this it came in 1965 to the City of Westminster.

In the mid-1930s, the parishes were abolished in London. With the entry into force of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 , there was again the possibility of establishing some again. After a survey of the population, Westminster City Council decided in October 2013 to establish a parish Queen's Park on April 1, 2014. The associated parish council has 12 members. As of February 2019, Queen's Park is the only parish in London. Approaches for Deptford and London Fields in the early 2010s fizzled out, while Spitalfields is in the investigation phase. As Ward and Parish, Queen's Park in the northeast also includes a few streets that were part of Paddington before it was incorporated. The church of St Luke and the primary school of the same name are located in this area .

The seat of the municipal council is the Beethoven Center in the former Beethoven Street School . Queen's Park sends three representatives to the City of Westminster City Council. In the last election in May 2018, the Labor Party won all seats.

traffic

Queen's Park is connected to the rail network via the train station of the same name and the Westbourne Park underground station, which is within walking distance in the southeast . A total of eleven bus routes open up the community via the ring-shaped main roads and Harrow Road. This is classified as A Road , Kilburn Lane, which runs along the edge, is classified as B Road.

Cultural monuments

The listed meeting hall

The residential buildings on both sides of the northern part of the central Fifth Avenue are listed buildings, as are the former Beethoven Street School, the Droop Street School , which is still used as a school , the Church of St John The Evangelist , the Meeting Hall and Kensal House. They are all classified as Category II listed buildings . The remaining areas of the original settlement, about half the area of ​​Queen's Park, are designated as Conservation Area due to their special historical and architectural importance .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation of location and boundaries on the Ordnance Survey map server, requested on May 26, 2019.
  2. ↑ Location and area of the municipality and the ward on the data server of the Office for National Statistics, accessed on May 26, 2019. (English)
  3. ^ Church of St John the Evangelist. Entry in the list of the protected object of Historic England , fetched (English) on June 6, 2019
  4. ↑ a b c The Queen's Park Estate Design Guide on the City of Westminster Administration website, PDF file, 772 kB, accessed May 26, 2019. (English)
  5. ↑ Liz Jackson: A History of Queen's Park. Prepared for the City of London Corporation by Land Use Consultants, London 2011, paragraphs 1.1 and 3.14, accessed June 6, 2019.
  6. ↑ Ludovic Hunter-Tilney: Architecture: Paradise lost New Statesman , March 12, 2012, accessed June 6, 2019. (English)
  7. ↑ Mozart Estate Regeneration . Presentation of the project on the website of the City of Westminster Housing Association, PDF file, 1.6 MB, accessed June 6, 2019. (English)
  8. ↑ a b Queen’s Park Gardens Management Plan 2005–2010 , p. 4. Available online on the City of Westminster Administration website, PDF file, 2.3 MB, accessed June 6, 2019. (English)
  9. ↑ St John and St Luke’s on the Church of England website, accessed June 6, 2019. (English)
  10. ^ Jamie Merrill "Jihadi John": World's media flock to several addresses in hunt for his family home. . The Independent , February 26, 2015, accessed June 6, 2019. (English)
  11. ↑ Harrow Road Jamme Mosque. Basic information with photos on a private website, accessed on June 6, 2019.
  12. ↑ Friends of Queen's Park Gardens website , accessed June 6, 2019.
  13. ↑ Sport and leisure facilities in Queens Park , as of 2017, on the City of Westminster Administration website, accessed June 6, 2019. (English)
  14. ↑ Sonia Zhuravlyova: Moberly Sports Center: Controversial Queen's Park leisure center set to open on Saturday. Brent & Kilburn Times, June 25, 2018, accessed June 9, 2019. (English)
  15. ↑ Project Newsletter of the construction company Willmott Dixon from August 2016 on the website of the administration of the City of Westminster, PDF file, 345 kB, accessed on June 6, 2019. (English)
  16. ↑ St Judes Community Hall on the City of Westminster website, accessed June 6, 2019. (English)
  17. ^ Plaque marks football club's west London birthplace. BBC, July 9, 2011, accessed June 6, 2019. (English)
  18. ^ Steve Russell: History in the Making - The Unveiling of the Plaque at St. Jude's Hall. Report from the opening ceremony with a picture of the plaque on a Rangers fan website, July 15, 2011, accessed on June 6, 2019. (English)
  19. ^ Queen's Park Community Council Neighborhood Plan, Long Version, p. 62.
  20. ^ A b Mark Sandford: Parish and town councils: recent issues , p. 15. House of Commons Library Research Service, Briefing Paper No. 04827 from February 25, 2019, available online , PDF file, 648 kB, accessed on May 25, 2019 (English)
  21. ↑ The City of Westminster (Reorganization of Community Governance) Order 2013 , PDF file, accessed May 26, 2019. (English)
  22. ↑ Query on the UK Environment Ministry's Magic Map (DEFRA), carried out on May 26, 2019.
  23. ↑ Map of the area on the City of Westminster Administration website, PDF file, 148 kB, accessed May 26, 2019. (English)

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 46 ″  N , 0 ° 12 ′ 31 ″  W.