{"id":1873,"date":"2012-06-24T17:54:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T16:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2012-06-24T20:26:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T19:26:17","slug":"save-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/save-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Park!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Park land and inner city greenery is sacred. That&#8217;s why I can&#8217;t believe it needs defending. But it does because the Council want to build on the Park behind Great Knollys Street (<em>Victoria Park<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>If you live in or near Reading, please object online <strong>before 4\/Jul\/12<\/strong>. The Planning Application Reference number is: <em>12\/00905\/REG3<\/em> and the link is <a href=\"http:\/\/planninghome.reading.gov.uk\/online-applications\/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&#038;keyVal=M58GV6MS5R000\">http:\/\/planninghome.reading.gov.uk<\/a> .<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1879\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120624_VictoriaParkPlan.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1879\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120624_VictoriaParkPlan.jpg?resize=400%2C302&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Planning Application Plan\" title=\"20120624_VictoriaParkPlan\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120624_VictoriaParkPlan.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120624_VictoriaParkPlan.jpg?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Planning Application Plan<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1874\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120624_VictoriaPark1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1874\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120624_VictoriaPark1.jpg?resize=620%2C465&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"20120624_VictoriaPark1\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120624_VictoriaPark1.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120624_VictoriaPark1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120624_VictoriaPark1.jpg?w=1112&amp;ssl=1 1112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most of the green in this photo would be lost to a new building<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1875\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120624_VictoriaPark2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1875\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120624_VictoriaPark2.jpg?resize=620%2C131&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"20120624_VictoriaPark2\" width=\"620\" height=\"131\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120624_VictoriaPark2.jpg?resize=1024%2C217&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120624_VictoriaPark2.jpg?resize=300%2C63&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120624_VictoriaPark2.jpg?w=1733&amp;ssl=1 1733w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120624_VictoriaPark2.jpg?w=1240&amp;ssl=1 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A panoramic photo of the whole park, The left part would be lost. (this photo makes the park look much much bigger than it really is)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1890\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120625_victoriaParkPlanning2.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1890\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120625_victoriaParkPlanning2.png?resize=620%2C445&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"20120625_victoriaParkPlanning2\" width=\"620\" height=\"445\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120625_victoriaParkPlanning2.png?resize=1024%2C736&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120625_victoriaParkPlanning2.png?resize=300%2C215&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120625_victoriaParkPlanning2.png?w=1138&amp;ssl=1 1138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a view from Google maps (that also shows where we live).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty upset by this. If I&#8217;m honest the main reason is that it&#8217;ll really kill our house price but it&#8217;s more than that, I really feel greenery needs to be kept green. On a nice day the park is packed all day. It&#8217;d be a real shame to lose it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park land and inner city greenery is sacred. That&#8217;s why I can&#8217;t believe it needs defending. But it does because the Council want to build on the Park behind Great Knollys Street (Victoria Park). If you live in or near Reading, please object online before 4\/Jul\/12. The Planning Application Reference number is: 12\/00905\/REG3 and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,73,72],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-council","tag-lobbying","tag-objection"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}