Spring brings flowers, improvements within Christchurch Gardens and Shillington Park—and a couple of new options for an al fresco coffee.

A long-awaited visit to this acclaimed urban park, created from a disused railway line, proved both a delight and a source of inspiration.

Read about the first illuminated flotilla on the Thames in 300 years, and about how the long-awaited opening of Battersea Power Station has already given us a new section of Thames Path - and a new riverside park.