A devastating experience - avoid!
We live very close to the Ecology Pavilion and we were excited to book it in June 2024 for our wedding in Sept 2025. The main selling point of the pavilion was the fantastic park view on a large pond outside the big glass windows, and the wooden walkways to have drinks surrounded by gorgeous reeds. When we viewed the venue it was lush and beautiful and full of natural life. (We're local residents anyway and loved going there for walks). By December I noticed the pond was drying out. Over the next 6 months the reed beds dried out, the pond got very low and murky and muddy, and the area became trampled and full of litter. And then they closed off the walkways as they were rotting with big ugly fences. At no time did anyone from the pavilion apologise or even tell us what was happening. Had we not been local residents we wouldn't have even known! We begged them to fix it all, but just got half baked statements about the walkways being sorted at some point over the summer. They claimed the pond was fixed but it was clear there was no water going in, and it looked so so bad that we had to pull the plug and cancel our wedding there.
The area is managed by tower hamlets council who clearly have no interest in sorting it out, and we found them to be at best inept, and at worst rude. They should be ashamed of themselves - what a cruel thing to do to people planning a wedding celebration.
We had planned our whole day around the Pavilion and were devastated to cancel. Luckily we found somewhere else at short notice but it’s cost us a ton of money - significantly increasing our overall wedding spend.
Having seen the state of the park since we cancelled we’re relieved we aren’t getting married there. There are festivals in nearby Victoria Park all summer and there are broken down temporary urinals/portaloos near entrances to the bit of park with the Eco Pavilion that haven’t been taken away for weeks.
The Art Pavilion up the road looks like it’s also suffering from neglect over time - it used to be wonderful and now looks sad and unloved.
Do yourself a favour and spare yourselves the misery of a booking here!A devastating experience - avoid!
We live very close to the Ecology Pavilion and we were excited to book it in June 2024 for our wedding in Sept 2025. The main selling point of the pavilion was the fantastic park view on a large pond outside the big glass windows, and the wooden walkways to have drinks surrounded by gorgeous reeds. When we viewed the venue it was lush and beautiful and full of natural life. (We're local residents anyway and loved going there for walks). By December I noticed the pond was drying out. Over the next 6 months the reed beds dried out, the pond got very low and murky and muddy, and the area became trampled and full of litter. And then they closed off the walkways as they were rotting with big ugly fences. At no time did anyone from the pavilion apologise or even tell us what was happening. Had we not been local residents we wouldn't have even known! We begged them to fix it all, but just got half baked statements about the walkways being sorted at some point over the summer. They claimed the pond was fixed but it was clear there was no water going in, and it looked so so bad that we had to pull the plug and cancel our wedding there.
The area is managed by tower hamlets council who clearly have no interest in sorting it out, and we found them to be at best inept, and at worst rude. They should be ashamed of themselves - what a cruel thing to do to people planning a wedding celebration.
We had planned our whole day around the Pavilion and were devastated to cancel. Luckily we found somewhere else at short notice but it’s cost us a ton of money - significantly increasing our overall wedding spend.
Having seen the state of the park since we cancelled we’re relieved we aren’t getting married there. There are festivals in nearby Victoria Park all summer and there are broken down temporary urinals/portaloos near entrances to the bit of park with the Eco Pavilion that haven’t been taken away for weeks.
The Art Pavilion up the road looks like it’s also suffering from neglect over time - it used to be wonderful and now looks sad and unloved.
Do yourself a favour and spare yourselves the misery of a booking here!