Paddington Green and Little Venice canalside public realm improvements

Westminster City Council is improving public spaces at Paddington Green and Little Venice Canalside for local residents, workers and visitors.  

Throughout September and October 2024, we carried out initial community engagement to understand your experiences and aspirations for the spaces and your concerns about any changes. Your views have been instrumental in developing design ideas across the site areas.  

We are now seeking further feedback from the local community on a series of design ideas for each site. Your feedback will be used to define a preferred design proposal for detailed design and delivery. Please see below for information on how to share your views and help shape these important improvements to your local area. 

About the project

In 2021, we published the Paddington Public Realm Strategy, which focuses on enhancing public spaces and improving walking and cycling connections throughout Paddington. The strategy aims to transform Paddington's disconnected neighbourhoods into vibrant, healthy, and inclusive areas. 

Taking the Public Realm Strategy forward, we launched the Paddington Green and Little Venice Canalside Public Realm Improvements project in 2024. Our ambition is to create safer, more accessible and greener public spaces that benefit local communities. 

We have appointed the design practice East to lead a design team to take these projects forward from design to delivery. They are an award-winning architecture, landscape, and urban design practice with experience in a wide range of projects, all aimed at enabling places to be positively experienced, environmentally sustainable, and accommodating diverse needs. East is supported by Jonathan Cook Landscape Architects, Studio Dekka lighting designers, Alan Baxter Associates design and engineers, NRP transport consultants, Appleyard and Trew, and WSP highway engineers. 

Project area

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Building on feedback gathered during early engagement with local residents and stakeholders, we're now developing design proposals for the following locations: 

Little Venice Canalside 

• Rembrandt Gardens 
• Stone Wharf 
• Porteus Triangle and Underpass 

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Paddington Green

• Churchyard Walk and St Mary's Square 
• St. Mary's Churchyard 
• Paddington Green 
• Westway Underpass 

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Timeline

The project commenced in July 2024, with an initial process of gathering all baseline information and engagement with residents, different landowners and project stakeholders.   

We are now looking for further feedback from the local community on our design options before we conduct additional technical studies, refine our proposals and secure funding for delivery. 

Have your say

To gather your views, we are hosting an online survey Monday 14 April to Sunday 18 May 2025. There will be an on-site public exhibition between Wednesday April and Sunday 11 May 2025.

Two in-person engagement events are also planned for 23 and 24 April from 5:30 to 7:30pm meeting outside City of Westminster College, W2. Please sign up via eventbrite.

The Paddington Green exhibition will be located at St. Mary's Churchyard, and the Little Venice Canalside exhibition will be held at Stone Wharf.

Learn more about the proposals and share your views online by visiting our Commonplace page. 

Visit Commonplace to have your say

Get in touch

Further updates will be published on this site following the public engagement. Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to get in touch via paddingtonplaceplan@westminster.gov.uk