Nowhere withinside the dialogue of lawn towns (Rogers strikes ‘ridiculous’ plan for lawn towns in inexperienced belt, nine September) is there any point out of manorial rights. It has handiest currently been made recognized via way of means of the Land Registry that those feudal rights nonetheless exist, affecting 100,000 freehold residences nationwide, permitting hunting, shooting, fishing and mining for minerals over the ones residences. Councils that personal freeholds and rent out residences to tenants also are tormented by this.
Nobody stated the life of manorial rights while Welwyn Garden City turned into installation or disposed of via way of means of Margaret Thatcher, and not anything turned into ever stated at some point of searches or conveyancing for belongings sales. A countrywide marketing campaign to abolish manorial rights, the Peasants’ Revolt, has been initiated in Welwyn Garden City. Manorial rights have already been abolished in Scotland. We wrote to Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband approximately this issue, however have obtained no replies.
Richard and Janet Woodward
Welwyn Garden City
One of the principal techniques of Ebenezer Howard’s “town-united states of america lawn metropolis” turned into to spatially separate residing from workplace. This separation has end up a broadly generic principal plank of city making plans and related governance systems, an sudden outcome of which has been to power home-primarily based totally paintings underground.
With structural unemployment, a globalising financial system and permitting new technologies, the home-primarily based totally team of workers is now developing rapidly. This popular, family-pleasant operating exercise has the capability to advantage the metropolis, the financial system and the environment.
Many home-primarily based totally people function covertly, fearing they are, or without a doubt are, breaking a few law or other. It is crucial, as we consider the housing crisis, that we do now no longer repeat beyond mistakes. Today’s dwellings are regularly additionally workplaces. They, and their neighbourhoods, want to be designed and ruled differently. The lawn metropolis isn’t the answer.
