{"id":10653,"date":"2014-06-05T18:44:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T18:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10653"},"modified":"2014-06-05T18:44:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T18:44:41","slug":"thames-foreshore-and-beaches-the-need-for-a-landscape-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/thames-foreshore-and-beaches-the-need-for-a-landscape-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Thames foreshore and beaches &#8211; the need for a landscape strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"795\" height=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8GcipiF8lis?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8GcipiF8lis?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"795\" height=\"480\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/13\/the-landscape-architecture-of-londons-beaches-and-foreshore\/\">The previous video<\/a> argued that London&#8217;s Thames beaches are much safer than the beaches below the Seven Sisters and Dover white cliffs. This video looks in more detail at the availability of public stairs down to the foreshore. They have been in decline for 3 centuries and the twentieth century was the period of sharpest decline. &#8216;The Authorities&#8217; by which I mean the London boroughs and the Port of London Authority, discouraged access for reasons of health and safety. If logic ruled, these Authorities would be even more opposed to horse riding, boxing, crossing roads, cycling and foreign travel. Fortunately, logic guides this blog &#8211; which therefore calls for a landscape strategy for the visual, ecological, archaeological and functional aspects of London&#8217;s Thames foreshore and beaches.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-14634289 \">Health and Safety Executive believes that <\/a>&#8216;complying with health and safety regulations was often used as a &#8220;convenient excuse&#8221; for organisations to justify unnecessary decisions.&#8217;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The previous video argued that London&#8217;s Thames beaches are much safer than the beaches below the Seven Sisters and Dover white cliffs. This video looks in more detail at the availability of public stairs down to the foreshore. They have been in decline for 3 centuries and the twentieth century was the period of sharpest [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653"}],"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=10653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}