Ealing Council have secured funding from the Mayor of London's Growing Back Greener fund for a new park in Southall. 

The council have announced that they have received £56,880 in funding from the pot of £2million from the Growing Back Greener fund and the council will also invest £14,220 themselves in order to build a "pocket park" in Southall Square in the west of the Borough. 

Councillor Deirdre Costigan said in a statement: "I am very excited that we have secured this funding from the Grow Back Greener Fund to support our plans for a new pocket park in Southall. 

"Taking away hard paving and replacing it with green planting will help create cleaner air, and adding sustainable drainage will support our climate emergency actions by taking water to where it is needed in the park.  

"This will also be a much-needed cooler space in hot weather and will be a lovely place for residents to sit and enjoy a little bit of nature in the middle of a buzzing town centre." 

Pocket parks are small green areas placed in more urban areas to give residents a place in which to relax. 

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said: "The positive impacts of rewilding and green spaces on the environment are significant, which is why I am proud to be awarding a further £2million to tree planting projects in the capital. 

"The extreme temperatures and devastating fires that raged across our city this summer laid bare London's vulnerability to the consequences of climate change, proving that we can no longer afford to be indifferent or complacent about this issue.  

"That is why I'm doing all that I can to tackle the ecological problems that we face by investing into vital projects to improve our climate resilience. 

"My fund prioritises tree-planting projects in areas with low tree canopy cover helping to ensure that more Londoners are within a 10-minute walk of a green space. This in turn will help build a safer, greener, more prosperous city for all." 

This park is a part of the Grow Back Greener Fund by Sadiq Khan to attempt to provide more green areas in lower income or ethnic minority parts of London. 

Khan's stated aim of the project was to make it so every Londoner lived within ten-minute walk of a green space and to spearhead a shift towards a "greener economy and a healthier city".