In WW2 the park hosted an anti-aircraft battery in the south-west corner (the tarmac is still visible under the grass) and a bomb shelter in the vicinity of the tennis courts.

In 2013 the Council turned a sandy, gritty area of London Fields into a pictorial meadow the size of a football pitch.

[6][7] In August 2022, a man was shot at close range while sitting in his vehicle at the junction of Shrubland Road and Albion Drive, roughly 100 meters from the parks east entrance.

[8][9] On August 10th & 11th, 2023, two consecutive shootings took place at London Fields Lido and Stoke Newington High Street, in the second incident a man suffered a gunshot injury to the arm and was taken to hospital.

[10][11] The surrounding area to the west has, since 2014, formed part of a new London Fields electoral ward, electing three councillors to Hackney Council.

[12] One of the largest, the Holly Street Estate, is undergoing regeneration, and the new development by United House won Apartment Building of the Year at the Daily Mail British Homes Awards in 2009.

Due to a successful legal challenge made by some of the local residents, most of the planned demolitions were prevented and it is this housing stock that principally makes up what is now London Field Conservation Area.