{"id":9404,"date":"2013-11-15T17:26:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=9404"},"modified":"2013-11-15T17:26:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:26:26","slug":"useful-info-for-the-mayor-and-leader-of-royal-greenwich-borough-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/useful-info-for-the-mayor-and-leader-of-royal-greenwich-borough-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful info for the mayor and leader of Royal Greenwich Borough Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9462\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/king_henrys_wharf_woolwich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9462\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9462\" title=\"king_henrys_wharf_woolwich\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/king_henrys_wharf_woolwich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/king_henrys_wharf_woolwich.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/king_henrys_wharf_woolwich-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/king_henrys_wharf_woolwich-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/king_henrys_wharf_woolwich-624x389.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stupid landscape architecture and mediocre architecture in Woolwich, London<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Dear Councillor Angela Cornforth and Councillor Chris Roberts<\/span><br \/>\n Respectfully, I draw the following points to your attention:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>You were elected to represent the people of Greenwich<\/li>\n<li>The people you represent do not want to pay for mowing useless grass<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>. They prefer gardens.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The people you represent wash their clothes. After that, they want to dry them &#8211; but not in a communal space (inset photo, bottom right)<\/li>\n<li>The people you represent ride bicycles. They and do not want them to be stolen and they do not want to hang them from the Juliet balconies you have allowed to be built (inset photo, top right).<\/li>\n<li>Your council&#8217;s riverside path is 36 feet wide (=10,973m). It has hardly any users. This is a waste of land. The heavily used riverside footpath in Maritime Greenwich is called the Five Foot Path and is 5&#8242; = 1.524m wide.<\/li>\n<li>The buildings your council allowed to be built c1995 look like relics of the 1930s with double glazing. I believe Councillor Roberts was in charge of Planning at that time. Past errors should be rectified<\/li>\n<li>Your council still employs a lot of town planners. They have powers which could be used to secure good urban and landscape design. Since they continue to permit unustainably bad urban landscape design, you should sack them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The reason your Council should have landscape architects on its staff is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> to do design work. It is to ensure that planning applications have appropriate landscape conditions attached to them &#8211; so that public goods can be secured through the planning process. The town planners who do this work at present do not have the\u00a0 necessary skills in design, construction, planting or the social use of small outdoor space in urban areas. Think about it: if either of you has a heart attack, do you want a gynecologist to look after you? If your car needs to be repaired, would you take it to a vet? If your house has subsidence, would you cal for a decorator?\u00a0 I guess not, so why not employ landscape architects for landscape architectural work?<\/p>\n<p>Yours truly<\/p>\n<p>Tom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Councillor Angela Cornforth and Councillor Chris Roberts Respectfully, I draw the following points to your attention: You were elected to represent the people of Greenwich The people you represent do not want to pay for mowing useless grass . They prefer gardens. The people you represent wash their clothes. After that, they want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404"}],"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=9404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}