{"id":13886,"date":"2016-10-05T14:07:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T13:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=13886"},"modified":"2016-10-04T12:51:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T11:51:01","slug":"councils-should-have-legal-duty-to-protect-parks-says-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=13886","title":{"rendered":"Councils should have legal duty to protect parks, says public"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/WP_20150819_11_40_51_Pro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13887\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/WP_20150819_11_40_51_Pro-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Public Park\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Three quarters of the public believe councils should have a statutory duty to protect parks, a new survey has revealed.<\/h3>\n<p>LocalGov writes:<\/p>\n<p>The polling, conducted on behalf of campaign group We Own It, also found 70% of people are against the privatisation of public parks.<\/p>\n<p>Cat Hobbs, director of We Own It, said: &#8216;The idea of privatising parks is hugely unpopular and it should be completely ruled out by government and councils.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Public parks are precious green spaces that belong to all of us &#8211; but cuts could mean a slippery slope towards sell offs. There should be a new legal duty to protect parks for the future.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Government inquiry into the future of public parks closed 30 September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/Councils-should-have-legal-duty-to-protect-parks-says-public\/41726\" target=\"_blank\">read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=13742\" target=\"_blank\">Recent HLF report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the Inquiry into the future of public parks see\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=13243\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBlogs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three quarters of the public believe councils should have a statutory duty to protect parks, a new survey has revealed. LocalGov writes: The polling, conducted on behalf of campaign group We Own It, also found 70% of people are against &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=13886\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13888,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886\/revisions\/13888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}