Cator Park is a park in

Kidbrooke Kidbrooke is an area of South East London, England, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich south-east of Charing Cross and north west of Eltham. The district takes its name from the Kyd Brook, a watercourse which runs from Orpington to Lewis ...

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. It has been won awards for

placemaking Placemaking is a multi-faceted approach to the planning, design and management of public spaces. Placemaking capitalizes on a local community's assets, inspiration, and potential, with the intention of creating public spaces that improve urban ...

biodiversity Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of variation at the genetic ('' genetic variability''), species ('' species diversity''), and ecosystem ('' ecosystem diversity' ...

, and

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. It was resigned by HTA Design in collaboration with the

London Wildlife Trust London Wildlife Trust (LWT), founded in 1981, is a local nature conservation charity for Greater London. It is one of 46 members of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (known as The Wildlife Trusts), each of which is a local nature conservati ...

and opened to the public in 2019. The park is made up of multiple biophilic spaces including lakes, wetlands and ponds. It is a protected space for wetland birds. The park also includes sports facilities and a 3000m³ play space at the park most elevated point. In September 2021, the body of

Sabina Nessa On the evening of 17 September 2021, 28-year-old Sabina Nessa was murdered in south east London, United Kingdom. Her body was found the following day in Cator Park, Greenwich, having been beaten and strangled. Koci Selamaj, an Albanian-born ma ...

was found by a dogwalker in the park, under a pile of leaves.{{Cite web, last=Dunne, first=John, date=2021-09-21, title=Family of teacher killed in park say they are ‘broken’, url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/kidbrooke-murder-teacher-sabina-nessa-primary-school-met-police-b956362.html, access-date=2021-11-19, website=www.standard.co.uk, language=en

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Parks in England Greater London Biodiversity