Havering’s Cabinet Members voted at last night’s Cabinet meeting (Wednesday 11 June 2025) to create village green status for two much-loved green spaces in the borough.
The proposals recommended registering the following sites across the borough as village greens.
- Platford Green and Tyle Green, including Garland Way, Emerson Park
- Tees Drive and Priory Road, including Carter’s Brook, Harold Hill
This now means the Council can start the work needed to apply to dedicate the land to ‘Town and Village Green’.
This is a voluntary registration by the Council as the land-owner which means collecting information on each of the sites to start the process for the dedication.
Once completed and formally registered, it means the green spaces will remain undeveloped ‘in perpetuity’ and therefore protected for all future generations.
Councillor Graham Williamson, Cabinet Member for Development and Regeneration, said:
“These much-loved green spaces are very important to us and will soon be formally dedicated as Village Greens to join the five existing village greens that we dedicated last year.
“We promised in our manifesto to create Village Greens and protect them from development for the benefit of all our residents, and I very much look forward to celebrating this milestone over the summer as we continue to deliver on that promise.”