King’s Park ward includes
the Clapton Park, Millfields, Nye Bevan, Kingsmead, Linzell and Sherry’s Wharf
estates, along with street properties of Homerton and Chatsworth Road,
Brooksby’s Walk and new buildings along the River Lee Navigation.
At the time of
the 2011 census King's Park was home to over 12,000 people. Amongst this population it has a greater proportion
of children under 19 than Hackney as a whole. There are three primary schools in King’s Park – Daubeney, Kingsmead,
and Mandeville. It also has a wide
range of other provision for children and young people including the Daubeney Children’s Centre; the Hackney Marshes Adventure Playground; the Pedro
youth club; and the Concorde
Youth Centre.
King’s Park prides itself on
its green public spaces. Alongside it’s award winning parks – Daubeney Fields,
Millfields, and the Marshes – residents have undertaken growing projects across
the ward developing numerous community gardens and vegetable patches. The
Clapton Park Tenant Management Association (covering Clapton Park, Millfields
and Nye Bevan) is famed for creating the “Poppy Estate”.
The ward profile for King’s
Park based on the 2011 census can be downloaded here.
King’s Park is in the
Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency, represented in Parliament by the Labour
MP, Meg Hillier.