Property News · July 25, 2017

Corbyn joins calls to reclaim UK pseudo-public space from corporate owners


Labour leader among those voicing concern after Guardian revealed secretive world of privately owned public spaces in LondonRevealed: the insidious creep of pseudo-public space in London‘It’s all very Orwellian’: Guardian readers respondExplore the map – and tell us what we’re missingJeremy Corbyn has called for Britain’s pseudo-public spaces to be reclaimed from corporate interests, after a Guardian investigation revealed the extent to which private ownership and secretive rule-making now dominate many of London’s most prominent squares and parks.The Labour leader added his voice to a growing chorus of concern from across the political spectrum after the Guardian found that the vast majority of landowners of pseudo-public space in the capital – open areas which look and feel like public space but are actually privately owned and subject to private restrictions – refused to divulge information about what citizens were allowed to do on their sites. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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