"The Royal Mail's sorting office at Mount Pleasant had a very large open-air parking space at the northern end, which was for their vans and lorries, and most of it was slightly below ground, but still open to the air. In recent years, the area has been completely covered over with housing, including a new public pocket park that runs the width of the site between Farringdon Road and Phoenix Place."
"A notable feature runs along one side, and they are a series of stylised giant red postboxes. The red "post boxes" were originally going to be green, but someone late in the process sensibly changed their mind and turned them into post office style. Functional though - as they provide ventilation to the Royal Mail car park beneath you. The small red horns seem to be just a decorative feature."
"So say hello to a new pocket park. It's very much a modern pocket park, with much more paving than planting, and the planting is in raised beds that seem more about a way of providing lots of seating areas on the stone walls. A notable feature runs along one side, and they are a series of stylised giant red postboxes."
Salutation Gardens occupies the roof of a covered section above the Mount Pleasant Royal Mail car park within a housing development between Farringdon Road and Phoenix Place. The park is predominantly paved with raised planting beds that double as seating wall features. A row of stylised giant red postbox structures provides ventilation for the car park below, with red horns serving as decoration. The park is arranged as a long linear space broken into zones, including square-cubed trees, an avenue between planting beds, wooden benches, wooden cubes, a chessboard and stone globes. The planning statement refers to a central 'Green Ark' form evoking a volume of greenery and a historical River Fleet connection.
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