Ebbsfleet's parks
Ebbsfleet’s parks put the ‘garden’ into the Garden City. The Implementation Framework includes 54 parks across Ebbsfleet’s villages, each one designed for both our humans and our wildlife to live happy and healthily together. This section sets out the design guidance you should use to develop your park designs for Ebbsfleet.
Ebbsfleet’s Park Typologies
Ebbsfleet’s park network is based on a hierarchy of four types of park. Click on a park type below to find out more about the design principles for each park scale, and the types of facility they should provide.
Pocket Parks
Neighbourhood Parks
Local Parks
City Parks
Ebbsfleet’s Park Design Criteria
EDC have developed park design criteria that should be delivered in all Parks projects, and will be used to assess all planning applications that include a parks . Click below to download criteria checklist.
Hard surfaces and furniture guidance
Ebbsfleet’s Public Realm Strategy includes guidance and design tools for Parks projects. Click on the tools below to help to inform the design and specification of parks projects in Ebbsfleet.
This guidance should be used to inform and design and specification of hard surfaces and street furniture in all streets in Ebbsfleet, to achieve characterful, affordable, durable and sustainable streets.
Use our planting guide to ensure the trees and planting in your project enhance the character, biodiversity and climate resilience of Ebbsfleet’s distinctive landscapes and habitats.
