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Privatising the outdoors: who owns our public space

29 June 2012

  • Gigha

    Scotland resurrects scheme to boost community ownership

    It is hoped reopening Scottish land fund - first set up more than a decade ago – will encourage more community buyouts

13 June 2012

  • Annie Lennox

    Annie Lennox: why I'm against Aberdeen's City Gardens project

    Annie Lennox
  • Annie Lennox

    Annie Lennox launches scathing attack on Aberdeen's City Gardens project

12 June 2012

  • MediaCityUK

    Landowner's security guards prevented strikers from picketing at university

    Union members were ordered away from Salford University's facilities during strike last year
  • Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen

    Scottish people have been losing 'common good' land since 1491

    Andy Wightman

    Historian points out that the privatisation of public spaces in Scotland is nothing new

  • Aberdeen City Garden project

    Aberdeen's divisive City Garden project hangs in the balance

    Battle over public good and private interest rages as critics claim privately backed scheme blights city's oldest public park

11 June 2012

  • Privately owned public space in King's Cross

    We're in the middle of a creeping privatisation of public space. The graphic below demonstrates the public parks and squares of the King's Cross redevelopment area

  • Canary Wharf

    We are returning to an undemocratic model of land ownership

    Anna Minton

    Anna Minton: When councils decide to hand over swaths of land to private ownership, they are reducing democracy to an optional extra

    • Public spaces in Britain's cities fall into private hands

    • Liverpool One no longer feeds into fears around private estates

      Martin Wainwright

    • Privately owned public space: where are they and who owns them?

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