Playgrounds

Play area improvements – update

We know that park play areas are important in creating a child friendly borough.

Since 2020, we have upgraded 13 park play areas:

• Butterfield Green (2 play areas)
• Clapton Square
• Haggerston Park
• Stoke Newington Common
• Clapton Pond
• Shepherdess Walk 
• Clapton Common
• Hackney Downs
• Stonebridge Gardens
• Well Street Common

The play areas now have new equipment and landscaping to make them more fun and welcoming for children of all ages.

We also built new play areas in:

• Shoreditch Park
• Springfield Park

For more information, visit Hackney News – New play areas spotted across Hackney.

What’s happening next

We’ve appointed a company called Ground Control to refurbish the play areas in:

• Clissold Park
• Millfields Park
• London Fields (north)

Before the first designs are created, we want to hear what you think about the current play areas and how they could be improved.

Come to the play areas to meet the designers and share your views.

London Fields

Date and time: Saturday 7 February 1.30pm to 4pm

Millfields Park

Date and time: Sunday 15 February 9.30am to 12.30pm

Clissold Park

Date and time:

• Saturday 7 February 9.30am to 12.30pm
• Sunday 15 February 1.30pm to 4pm

If you’re unable to attend but would still like to share your views, email parks@hackney.gov.uk by Monday 16 February 2026.

Hackney parks with play areas

• Allens Gardens, Bethune Road, N16 5BD
• Broadway Market Green, Jackman Street, E8 4QX
• Butterfield Green, Wordsworth Road, Spenser Grove, Shakespeare Walk, N16 8DD (three play areas)
• Clapton Common, E5 9AA
• Clapton Pond, E5 0QA
• Clapton Square, E5 8HP
• Clissold Park, Green Lanes, N4 2EY
• Daubeney Fields, Kings Mead Way, E9 5PP
• De Beauvoir Square, N1 4LG
• Hackney Downs, E5 8NP
• Haggerston Park, Yorkton Street, E2 8NH
• Kynaston Gardens, Kynaston Avenue, N16 0DA
• London Fields, Eleanor Road, London Fields East Side, E8 3EU (two play areas)
• Mabley Green, Lee Conservancy Road E9 5RN
• Millfields Park, Chatsworth Road, E5 0AR
• Rowley Gardens, N4
• Shepherdess Walk, N1 7JN
• Shoreditch Park, New North Road, N1 6TA
• Springfield Park, Springfield, E5 9EF (two play areas)
• St John’s Churchyard Gardens, E5 0PD
• Stoke Newington Common, Northwold Road, N16 7DH
• Stonebridge Gardens, Haggerston Road, E8 4EP
• Well Street Common, E9 7AS
• West Hackney Recreation Ground, Evering Road, N16 7QA
• Woodberry Down Park, N4

Adventure playgrounds

• Apples and Pears Adventure Playground, Pearson Street, E2 8EL. Tel: 020 7729 6062
• Evergreen Adventure Playground, Beehive Close, (off Richmond Road), E8 3JT. Tel: 020 7275 9004
• Hackney March Adventure Playground, Daubney Fields (off Kingsmead Way), E9 5PP. Tel: 020 8986 7245
• Homerton Grove Adventure Playground, Wardle Street E9 5QG. Tel: 020 8985 9202
• Kidsactive Adventure Playground Hackney (KAPH), Spring lane, Big Hill, Clapton E5 9HQ (open to all if spaces are available, but priority is given to children with special needs). Tel: 020 8806 6149
• Shakespeare Walk Adventure Playground, Shakespeare Walk, N16 8TL. Tel: 020 7249 8405
• Shoreditch Adventure Playground, Mintern Street N1 5EF. Tel: 020 7729 3770

Play areas with accessible toilets

There are play areas with accessible toilets in the following parks:

• London Fields
• Hackney Downs
• Millfields
• Haggerston Park (changing places)
• Springfield Park
• Shoreditch Park

Map of playgrounds

Play streets

You can apply for a temporary play street order, which allows you to close your street to through traffic for up to 3 hours per week, turning it into a play street.