Royal Parks Unveils Plans for Roehampton Café Upgrade

---

Enhanced landscaping proposed around Roehampton Gate area

A visualisation of what the new cafe could look like. Picture: The Royal Parks

March 22, 2024

The Royal Parks has published its proposals for a new café and surroundings for the area by Roehampton Gate in Richmond Park.

The charity is proposing a ‘Roehampton Restored’ project to replace the popular existing café, as well as improve the landscape it sits in with the aim of increasing biodiversity in that part of the park.

The current facilities at Roehampton Gate are temporary structures put in place almost 20 years ago after a fire destroyed the original buildings. The Royal Parks says these do not offer the capacity or modern amenities required to serve park visitors.

The new café would be aiming for environmental excellence, in keeping with the landscape it sits in, as well as being able to cope with increased visitor numbers. It will aim to make it a more family-friendly part of the park, offering a wide range of fresh produce to meet visitor demand and expectation.

A new car park entrance and cycling infrastructure will also be created.

Local residents and park visitors will get the chance to find out more at three public engagement days where they can look at the plans, ask questions and give feedback.

The dates for the engagement days are:

• 1-4pm, Thursday 4 April, Roehampton Café
• 10am-1pm, Saturday 6 April, Roehampton Café
• 11am-2pm, Friday 12 April, Pen Ponds

Paul Richards, Richmond Park Manager, The Royal Parks, said, “We’re really excited about our proposals for the upcoming project at Roehampton Gate, which we know people have been looking forward to for a while. We’re looking forward to welcoming as many people as possible to the park to find out more about the proposals.

“The engagement days will be a great opportunity for local communities and park visitors to speak directly with members of the project team, including our Richmond Park team and The Royal Parks landscape team.”

 

Like Reading Articles Like This? Help Us Produce More This site remains committed to providing local community news and public interest journalism. Articles such as the one above are integral to what we do. We aim to feature as much as possible on local societies, charities based in the area, fundraising efforts by residents, community-based initiatives and even helping people find missing pets. We’ve always done that and won’t be changing, in fact we’d like to do more. However, the readership that these stories generates is often below that needed to cover the cost of producing them. Our financial resources are limited and the local media environment is intensely competitive so there is a constraint on what we can do. We are therefore asking our readers to consider offering financial support to these efforts. Any money given will help support community and public interest news and the expansion of our coverage in this area. A suggested monthly payment is £8 but we would be grateful for any amount for instance if you think this site offers the equivalent value of a subscription to a daily printed newspaper you may wish to consider £20 per month. If neither of these amounts is suitable for you then contact info@neighbournet.com and we can set up an alternative. All payments are made through a secure web site. One-off donations are also appreciated. Choose The Amount You Wish To Contribute. If you do support us in this way we’d be interested to hear what kind of articles you would like to see more of on the site – send your suggestions to the editor. For businesses we offer the chance to be a corporate sponsor of community content on the site. For £30 plus VAT per month you will be the designated sponsor of at least one article a month with your logo appearing if supplied. If there is a specific community group or initiative you’d like to support we can make sure your sponsorship is featured on related content for a one off payment of £50 plus VAT. All payments are made through a secure web site.