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HANDS OFF OUR HEATH
Celebrities join fight to protect ‘lungs of the metropolis’
HIGH-PROFILE protesters including film-maker Ken Loach and actor Michael Palin are fighting to protect the “golden rule” that not a single blade of grass on Hampstead Heath should face development.
They have waded into a bitter fight over plans to build a new road on the Heath.
The City of London Corporation, which manages the 800-acre Heath, want to create a route from Gospel Oak up to their new offices in the Parliament Hill staff yard. It would be out of bounds to walkers.
The famous faces have joined campaigners from Lissenden Gardens, an estate that overlooks Parliament Hill Fields, who want the project scrapped. They say it will be dangerous for walkers and increase traffic, and run roughshod over the founding principles of the historic “lungs of the metropolis”.
Campaigner Ros Bayley said: “It undermines the very ethos of the Heath – that it be a green oasis in the heart of London” > more |
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