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Introduction
We’re proud of Morden: as a place and as a community.
Morden offers the best of both worlds. It’s a quiet, safe and green town centre but super-connected into the very heart of the city.
Morden is a place defined by its strong communities, growing business networks and beautiful green spaces. It is the civic heart of our borough.
It also has huge untapped potential for the benefit of residents - current and future – to create a more modern, attractive, vibrant and diverse town centre. We want Morden residents and businesses to be even prouder to call it their home and create a town centre which works for everyone.
That’s why Merton Council is Remaking Morden as part of our key priority to Build a Sustainable Future for our borough. Because Remaking Morden will transform lives.
Our vision for change is broad and exciting, and it will make Morden fit for the future while respecting its character, spirit and heritage.
Making improvements
We are investing £300,000 to brighten and refresh Morden town centre in 2024-25. You will notice improvements to our streets and public places that have been informed by our consultation with the Morden community.
Making healthier public spaces
At the heart of Morden, we want to establish a ‘Healthy Streets’ vision Healthy Streets - Transport for London (tfl.gov.uk) and create new public spaces.
We will work with the community to create a confident, revived neighbourhood with a stronger local identity. A neighbourhood for everyone - those who have called Morden home for decades, or years or even months.
Making changes longer term
Longer term, we will breathe new life into Morden town centre with a development and housing delivery plan that will realise the full potential of the area: with a bustling high street and local economy, places where children can play, and families can gather, where arts and culture can flourish and with clean air and green streets.
We’re planning to build the homes we know are desperately needed, creating a brand-new neighbourhood - diverse and vibrant - building on the best that Morden has to offer and providing options for people to stay living close to where they grew up.
Better and more affordable housing is better for everyone. It creates safer neighbourhoods, brings people together and provides opportunities. It is right and it is fair.
Updates
Street Festival on Abbotsbury Road
In September 2024, we held a street festival on Abbotsbury Road in Morden for World Car Free Day.
We closed the street to vehicle to create a space for lots of fun activities and entertainment for the whole family throughout the day from Salsa classes and smoothie bikes, to planting, painting and games!
On the day, we ran the final Morden community workshop to gather feedback and ideas from visitors about how they wanted to refresh and brighten Morden as part of our plans to improve the area.
Community workshops
In July 2024, we brought together residents and businesses to a series of workshops and conversations to find out how, together, we best invest £300,000 to brighten and refresh Morden town centre.
We were seeking views on the types of improvements we will make to Morden. For example, public artwork, vibrant new street furniture, planting, and pop-up spaces for events and cultural activities.
We got the community together to:
- find out what they like about Morden town centre and what doesn't work for them so we understand exactly what improvements they would like to see;
- help us design some of the street furniture and other public space improvements; and
- find out here they want to hang out and what underused public spaces can be brought into use for their benefit
Contact us
Regeneration and Economy
Merton Civic Centre
London Road
Morden
SM4 5DX
Telephone: 020 4605 3837
Email: more.morden@merton.gov.uk