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What concerns me about elaborate public parks included in development schemes (i.e. Broadgate High Line) is who bears the cost of maintaining them looking as nice as when the developer hands them over, particularly when they are in awkward locations (on top of railway arches), and is sufficiently funding guaranteed for next 50+ years
The leaseholders of the commercial buildings (via a service charge)? Residents (service charge) The council (with their strapped budget)?
Many examples historically where elaborate public realm spaces are undermaintained and become run down, and are then eliminated–as a form of strategic neglect to allow them to be profitably repurposed.
And handing them over to a trust of some sort doesn’t always work–there are significant concerns at the moment about how City of London Corporation is handling Hampstead swimming ponds, which have been historically free (under the enabling grant for the Heath as a whole, trusteeship and operations now with CoLC)–see articles and letters in Ham & High and Camden New Journal local newspapers (both freely online) and
Thanks for once again linking to a post on my blog. I wish I had the second part of that published right now but alas not! I hope the second part will be out soon as it features a previously undocumented Royal visit to the old City & South London tunnels (aka the Southwark deep level tube shelter.)
“Bishopsgate Goodsyard” ( Dreadful grammar, but never mind!)
Readers might like to search the back pages of the local historical & informational blog:
Spitalfields Life” for more information on the subject.
The writer ( “The Gentle Author” ) is emphatically not in favour, though.