{"id":10635,"date":"2014-05-13T17:51:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T17:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10635"},"modified":"2014-05-13T17:51:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T17:51:10","slug":"the-landscape-architecture-of-londons-beaches-and-foreshore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/the-landscape-architecture-of-londons-beaches-and-foreshore\/","title":{"rendered":"The landscape architecture of London&#039;s beaches and foreshore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"775\" height=\"480\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H85IDKQgntw?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"775\" height=\"480\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H85IDKQgntw?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\nLondoner&#8217;s require a right to roam on London&#8217;s beaches and, wherever possible, a public access route along the entire foreshore.<\/p>\n<p>The Port of London Authority PLA does not encourage access because it was set up to manage the port, commercially, for maritime shipping. It gives safety considerations as a reason for not spending money on public goods. But the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevensisters.org.uk\/\">Seven Sisters Country Park<\/a> is a much more dangerous place and is managed for recreation, conservation and wildlife. My suggestion is to transfer the amenity responsibilities of the PLA to a Landscape Agency and to bring both bodies within the GLA Greater London Authority family of public authorities. Construction of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thamestidewaytunnel.co.uk\/\">Thames Tideway Tunnel<\/a> will make the water much cleaner and the beaches more desirable.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the London Assembly report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/mayor-assembly\/london-assembly\/publications\/access-to-the-thames-scrutiny-of-the-thames-foreshore-and-path\">Access to the Thames Scrutiny of the Thames foreshore and path <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/landscape_architecture\/london_landscape_architecture\/london_urban_design_policies\/public_access_thames_foreshore_london\"> public access to the Thames beaches and foreshore<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Londoner&#8217;s require a right to roam on London&#8217;s beaches and, wherever possible, a public access route along the entire foreshore. The Port of London Authority PLA does not encourage access because it was set up to manage the port, commercially, for maritime shipping. It gives safety considerations as a reason for not spending money on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}