From Monday 20 July, visitors can experience the reimagined Grosvenor Square as one of London's most significant urban nature projects opens to the public.
Our new visitor and learning hub, the Wheatsheaf Building, will inspire thousands of people each year to discover urban wildlife, understand nature’s role in tackling the climate and biodiversity crises, and take action where they live. Thanks to generous funding from the Westminster Foundation, we’ll deliver a year-round programme of free school visits, family activities, guided walks, talks, workshops and community events, helping children and adults connect with nature in central London.
The transformation by Grosvenor marks only the fourth redesign in the square's 300-year history, reimagining this historic public space as a climate-resilient urban garden. Where less than one per cent of the square was once planted, almost half is now filled with nature, including more than 70,000 plants across 63 species, 80,000 bulbs, 44 new trees, and two new wetlands. Together, they create vital habitat for birds, pollinators and other wildlife in the heart of central London. And wildlife is already returning, with ducks, butterflies and dragonflies spotted in the weeks leading up to the reopening.
