Brondesbury Park

Humphry Repton's Brondesbury Park

Brondesbury Park is so called because the celebrated landscape designer Humphry Repton named it Brondesbury Park when he designed Lady Salusbury's garden at her newly purchased house called 'Brandsbury' in Willesden in 1789. Repton produced one of his famous 'Red Books' for Brondesbury, which has been republished in facsimile by , along with his Red Book for Glemham Hall in Suffolk.

Repton planned a garden with views across London, but Lady Salusbury wanted shade rather than sweeping views. The grounds of Lady Salusbury’s house only amounted to 10 acres, but Repton, who had found very few trees there, planted hundreds or mature trees and shrubs. Lady Salusbury was so delighted with the work that she gave Repton a substantial bonus of £50.

The street names in the area today attest to its former existence as landscaped parkland, with the street named Brondesbury Park leads into Salusbury Road.

Repton also worked on Wembley Park, also in the London Borough of Brent.

Politics

The ward returns three councillors to sit on Brent Council.

After the 2014 council election the three elected councillor's were Conservative, Carol Shaw, Joel Davidson and John Warren.

In the 2006 local elections Brondesbury Park was won by the Liberal Democrats, who climbed from third place in 2002 to take all three seats. This was widely attributed to the defection of campaigner Carol Shaw, who left the Conservatives to join the Liberal Democrats shortly before the Brent East by-election in 2003. The party retained the seats at the 2010 elections.

Since the 2010 General Election the ward forms part of the new seat of Hampstead and Kilburn.

Surrounding areas