MEDITE TRICOYA
EXTREME HELPS
CREATE URBAN
OASIS IN LONDON
BRIDGE
Marlborough Sports Garden, a regeneration of Marlborough
long-time community recreation Sports Garden and will continue to
space in London Bridge, has manage it.
been regenerated and reopened,
featuring unique hexagonal MEDITE® TRICOYA® EXTREME
planters made from MEDITE® (MTX) was chosen for its
TRICOYA® EXTREME. exceptional capabilities to be
extremely hardwearing in outdoor
Transforming the once graffitied conditions, even in contact with
concrete space into an urban oasis, soil for up to 25 years. It’s also
the planters were a central feature sustainably manufactured in the UK,
at the official opening, attended by using FSC certified wood sourced
British Olympian Tom Daley and from fast-growing pine forests in
MP Jo Cox’s sister Kim, alongside Ireland.
her parents Mr and Mrs Leadbeater.
The planters now sit along the edges
Some may recognise these planters of Marlborough Sports Garden, filled
from this year’s Ecobuild exhibition with live trees and plants which
back in March, where they made were kindly donated by Palmstead
up a ‘pocket park’ designed by The Nursery in Kent.
Edible Bus Stop, an award-winning
landscape architecture and design Between MEDITE SMARTPLY’s
consultancy, in partnership with partnership with The Edible Bus
MEDITE SMARTPLY. Stop and BOST’s ongoing agenda
to develop communities and make
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These planters have been donated the London SE1 area a greener,
to Bankside Open Spaces Trust friendlier place to live, Marlborough
(BOST) who coordinated the Sports Garden has been transformed