Wormwood Scrubs
Within the area are several sports facilities, including the Linford Christie Stadium, tens of football pitches, and a pony centre.
To ensure that it was kept as open land for all to enjoy, the act banned the military from building any permanent structures other than rifle butts,[3]: 37 one of which survives today as a wall in the Linford Christie Stadium.
In 1939 with the onset of World War II, Wormwood Scrubs again played host to an innovative military department—the Chief Cable Censorship Department, an outstation of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park.
[5] The prison is located just yards from the scene of the Massacre of Braybrook Street in 1966, in which three policemen were shot dead by three armed men after stopping their suspicious car.
[6] In 1986 local birdwatcher Lester Holloway set up a campaign to save Scrubs Wood,[7] the area of railway land along the north side of Wormwood Scrubs, from destruction as part of plans by the then British Rail to build cleaning depots (see North Pole depot) to service Channel Tunnel trains.
Holloway and his campaign petitioned the House of Lords,[8] supported by the then MP for Fulham Nick Raynsford, and won concessions.
[11] The Wormwood Scrubs Charitable Trust, a charity set up under the Act of Parliament to manage this public space "for the exercise and recreation of the inhabitants of the metropolis", receives a substantial income stream from the lease to Hammersmith Hospital of a car park on its southern boundary.
Other sources of income from the space include the rental of sports fields, advertising billboards, and two public car parks.
The primary goal is to connect each patch of the Local Nature Reserve within the grounds by a wildlife corridor in the form of low hedges and trees.
[citation needed] Ultimately, it is claimed that this will benefit biodiversity in the park and create better foraging routes for bats such as the common pipistrelle.
being undertaken by volunteers for Groundwork London, a government quasi non-governmental organisation funded largely through a levy on landfill.
