![]() ![]() The underlying dataset is publicly available. In partnership with Greenspace Information for Greater London CIC (GiGL), the capital’s environmental records centre, Guardian Cities has produced the first ever comprehensive map of pseudo-public spaces in the capital. In response to the Guardian investigation, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has now vowed to publish new guidelines on how these spaces – some of the city’s most prominent squares and plazas – are governed. We also asked all local authorities in London for details of privately owned public spaces in their borough, via the Freedom of Information Act most councils rejected the request. All but two of the landowners declined to answer. We asked them what regulations people passing through their land were subject to, and where members of the public could view those regulations. To me, it's everything - I’m not the sort of person they want A homeless man at King's Cross To the ordinary person, there’s no distinction. The Guardian contacted the landowners of more than 50 major pseudo-public spaces in London, ranging from financial giant JP Morgan (owner of Bishops Square in Spitalfields) to the Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Estate (owner of Paternoster Square in the City of London) and the Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (owner of the open space around the ExCeL centre). Although they are seemingly accessible to members of the public and have the look and feel of public land, these sites – also known as privately owned public spaces or “Pops” – are not subject to ordinary local authority bylaws but rather governed by restrictions drawn up the landowner and usually enforced by private security companies. ![]()
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