Euston Road, London

The Project

Euston Road forms part of London’s Inner Ring Road, is the northern boundary of the Congestion Charge zone and one of the capital’s heaviest trafficked routes. At its junction with Tottenham Court Road, Euston Road has an underpass that removes east-west traffic from street level, making the area a busy pedestrian crossover between commercial developments to the immediate north of Euston Road, and Warren Street underground station and University College Hospital to the south.

Amongst a series of recent public realm improvements to the area is the creation of a small linear green space on a wedge-shaped parcel of land between the southern side of the underpass and Euston Road street level, where previously trees stood in a fully paved hardstanding. Planted borders and mown grass margins have been laid either side of a new resin-bound gravel path, and tree works undertaken, including crown lifting and root zone decompaction, designed to improve their long-term health and sustainability.