With beautiful wildflower meadows, lush lawns, ponds, trees, refreshing fountains and sports facilities, Union Park is the perfect place for a picnic or to relax with friends and family. Designed with community at its heart, the park is an urban green space like no other, with seven acres of nature for everyone to explore and enjoy.
Where is Union Park?
The southern section of Union Park can be found outside Quintain Living's Canada Gardens building on Engineers Way. The northern section, which opens in late spring 2025, sits on the other side of Engineers Way, adjacent to Quintain Living’s Luna and Solar apartment buildings.
Union Park is an easy walk from Wembley Park Underground station. You can stroll from the tube to the park in just ten minutes, walking down the pedestrianised Olympic Way towards Wembley Stadium, turning left on to Engineers Way, across Rutherford Way and slight right onto Walters Walk or left on to Marshalls Walk.Union Park is well signposted across the Wembley Park neighbourhood.
What is there to do at Union Park?
Union Park has something for everyone. The southern section, which opened in 2021, features abundant green space and seating, a children’s paddling pool and playgrounds, an amazing pond, dedicated areas for dogs to enjoy time off the lead and even two bug hotels! There is also outdoor sports training equipment and a multi-use games area where you can play tennis and netball making Union Park the perfect outdoor gym and workout park.
The northern section of the park, new for 2025, adds a more wild and rugged dimension, with wildflower meadows, ponds, reed beds and a vast array of new planting, from flowers and shrubs to several species of trees. Bug hotels, bee hotels and bird boxes are spread across Union Park to give nature a helping hand, while the diverse planting has been thoughtfully planned with biodiversity top of mind.
A new play space featuring natural elements such as tree trunks and Hopop Seats will enable imaginative free play for all ages, whilst a dedicated dogs off lead area will keep canine visitors happy.
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things to do in Union Park
From walking your dog to playparks and picnics, there's plenty to do around Union Park.
Union Park’s ponds
Union Park provides access to blue space as well as green, with a beautiful new pond at the heart of the northern section of the park. Surrounded by sun loungers and designed to give local biodiversity a significant boost, the pond provides something for everyone.
Within the ponds will be a colourful mixture of perennial and herbaceous aquatic planting, including marsh marigold (Caltha palustris), yellow iris (Iris pseudacorus), reed sweet grass (Glyceria maxima), purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) and others.
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Union Park – past, present and future
Union Park is the first major park to open in the Wembley Park neighbourhood in over 130 years. It delivers an amazing urban green space for all to enjoy. Locals and visitors have been delighting in the greenery of the three-acre southern section since 2021, with the northern section adding four more acres four years later.
There are further plans for the park as the neighbourhood continues to evolve. The popular Sound Shell stage will move from Wembley Park’s Samovar Space to take up residence in the northern section of Union Park in due course, adding an enchanting cultural performance space in the midst of the natural landscape. Keep a look out for more sculptures in the park as well, with the success of Union Park’s butterfly sculpture set to be built upon with additional commissions.
“Wild meadows, bug hotels and plenty of water have been included in the plans and they’ll help insects and that in turn support bird and small mammal populations. What’s more, culture has been considered too, with a bandstand being erected for live music and theatre events and public art installations in the pipeline. I for one can’t wait to visit!”
Jim Biddulph, Design Insider
Space for the whole community
In addition to the opening of the northern section of Union Park in late June 2025, a new community space is due to open adjacent to the park.
Wembley’s musical heritage and the new home of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which will be headquartered right by Union Park from the end of summer 2025.
Look out for the street names leading to the northern section of park such as Allegro Walk, Andante Walk, Tippatone Walk, Marshalls Walk and Marley Street, which also play tribute to musicality.
Union Park FAQs
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Who is allowed to use the park?
The park is open to everyone. This welcoming community space can be enjoyed by all.
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What age is the playpark suitable for?
The playpark is designed for families with children below the age of 8 years old.
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Are barbecues allowed in the park?
No. Barbecues are not allowed in Union Park. For residents, Quintain Living provides barbecues in its residential buildings overlooking the park and elsewhere across the neighbourhood.
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Why is it called Union Park and who chose its name?
The name ‘Union Park’ has two meanings. Firstly, it highlights the importance of community and coming together, a core part of the vision for Wembley Park. It also pays homage to Walter Citrine, the first Baron of Wembley and one of the leading British and international trade unionists in the 20th century. Baron Citrine was widely credited for providing the Trades Union Congress with the administrative backbone it needed to become the respected lobbying organisation it is today.
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How does Union Park differ to other London parks?
The location is truly iconic, with the world-famous Wembley Stadium arch in the backdrop. While Wembley Park is known throughout the world for the major events hosted either at the National Stadium or the OVO Arena, Wembley, Union Park is a fitting new community space for the new neighbourhood that has been created in the space surrounding the Stadium - much of which is former coach and car parks.
The designers also looked at other parks in the surrounding Brent area to ensure Union Park offered points of difference.
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Where does the park’s design inspiration come from?
Union Park is a space for the people living and working in Wembley Park, the hundreds of thousands living nearby and across the Borough of Brent, and those visiting the area.
Union Park takes inspiration from the design philosophy of Sir Humphry Repton, who designed the original landscapes at Wembley Park in the 1790s. The mixture of the formal and informal, borrowed landscape views, and the ways in which buildings can enhance a landscape and the other way around. The landscape is more formal closer to the stadium and less formal further way. This is similar to the way that Repton would have treated the landscape closer to the country houses that he designed the landscapes for.
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How is the park expected to benefit the area and reduce pollution in Brent?
The physical and mental benefits of green and blue spaces are well-documented, and Union Park provides for both, while also supporting local biodiversity to flourish. Wembley Park is a 15-minute neighbourhood and places an emphasis on public transport and active travel, all of which helps to improve air quality in Brent.
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Where can I find out more about nature in Wembley Park?
Love nature? Then discover Wembley Park's urban forest with our Greentalk website. Create custom tree walks, learn about our diverse species, and explore the Avenue of Champions along Olympic Way. Use the interactive site to create self-guided tree walks, read up on detailed information on the diverse tree types in the area, create custom walking routes and learn about your environmental impact.
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