{"id":9884,"date":"2013-09-09T11:33:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T11:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=9884"},"modified":"2013-09-09T11:33:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T11:33:25","slug":"defending-public-parks-the-case-of-banstead-downs-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/defending-public-parks-the-case-of-banstead-downs-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending public parks: the case of Banstead Downs Common"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/banstead_common_garda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/banstead_common_garda.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"banstead_common_garda\" width=\"775\" height=\"515\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/banstead_common_garda.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/banstead_common_garda-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/banstead_common_garda-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/banstead_common_garda-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTo make themselves richer, a few bloated putocrats seek to deprive the public of &#8216;public goods&#8217;. Sir John Craddock is a prime example:<br \/>\n<em>A leaflet issued by Banstead Commons Conservators relates that in 1873 Sir John Cradock Hartopp Bt from Yorkshire bought 1700 acres of Banstead Commons. He planned to purchase the commoners\u2019 rights and enclose and develop the most suitable parts. Turf, top soil, gravel, etc were to be removed and sold from Banstead Heath, and houses built. To stop this, local residents formed Banstead Commons Protection Committee in 1887. Legal action followed, culminating in Sir John\u2019s bankruptcy.  In 1893, Parliament passed the Metropolitan Commons (Banstead) Supplemental Act, protecting the downs from further development.&#8217; <\/em><br \/>\nI invite the landscape architects defending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/08\/the-landscape-architecture-of-taksim-gezi-meydani-park-or-square\/\">Taksim Gezi Meydani<\/a> to celebrate Sir John&#8217;s downfall and bankruptcy. As Gloria Steinem said &#8216;Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.<br \/>\nImage courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/photosak\/\">garda<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make themselves richer, a few bloated putocrats seek to deprive the public of &#8216;public goods&#8217;. Sir John Craddock is a prime example: A leaflet issued by Banstead Commons Conservators relates that in 1873 Sir John Cradock Hartopp Bt from Yorkshire bought 1700 acres of Banstead Commons. He planned to purchase the commoners\u2019 rights and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884"}],"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=9884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}