Important green spaces (but not the 150 acres I've fenced off)

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William says green spaces are so important for people's mental health.

How does this chime with the 150 acres of land around his latest forever home that's been accessible by the public for the benefit of their wellbeing, but now they have no access to?

Many people have loved the open space they wandered in over many years, only to find it now shut off. I'd be sad and upset if part of my local area was suddenly inaccessible. I expect locals' mental health has been affected.

The Windsors have access to any number of houses that could have been the forever home, but no, they wanted this one.

Which also needed lots of work done on it apparently, as does every other new abode.

Go out in green space, but not the green space I've decided I want.

Prince William: Greenery is so good for our minds and bodies https://share.google/Kdq6YfnuV8V0d923d

The story of the Wales' accommodation is getting a bit tedious. Kensington Palace: forever but not private enough. Adelaide Cottage: forever but too small. Forest Lodge: forever but too foresty.

William: Green spaces are good for us. Also William: this massive green space formerly accessible to the public is ours.

Catherine: here's a film about the importance of playing outside in the early yars because communicating the importance of the early yars is my life's twerk.
Also Catherine: my family needs to take over this children's outdoor play space to secure our home.

William: we must work together to save the planet.
Also William: I need my own helipad at Forest Lodge. But I do have my own scooter.

William: ending homelessness is my life's work.
Also William: I don't fancy living in my 20-room apartment at KP but it's my office and no-one else is going to live in it. I don't fancy living in BP when I'm king but I will be king and no-one else is going to live in it. In my world, uninhabited palaces are 10 a penny.

Are you one of the people who is now unable to walk this space OP?

They are moving because their children will be closer to their schools of choice. Also closer to London, and probably more importantly KC3.

They simply are not a normal family and likely the perimeter was advised by their RP detail.

If I were a WGP walker I’d be more pissed off seeing AMW whilst on my walk than skirting the Wales plot.

Is there a comprehensive list anywhere of all the properties owned by the RF?
Seemingly a derelict farm house on Sandringham is being renovated for AMW.

Also Catherine: my family needs to take over this children's outdoor play space to secure our home.

I'd forgotten the 150 acres had the children's playpark!

Never mind, they need their privacy, just build another one somewhere else.

Did Wm and Catherine fund the construction of another playpark? They wouldn't be so rock bottom in my estimation if they had. Children's mental health and access to early years outdoors being important as they are to them both.

And they still have Anmer Hall as well for the weekend, yah?

It's a shoebox. (Nabbed from another thread.)

No because Sandringham is private.

‘I think it’s selfish’: William and Kate face backlash over Windsor Great Park no-go zone | Monarchy | The Guardian https://share.google/mN08SHdKKctLdekuL

.The Windsor Great Park Environmental Centre is a children’s nature hub ( not technically an open playground ) run by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust and used for organised ‘teaching’ sessions

Established in 2017 with Crown Estate support,
the Wildlife Trust is looking for a new home for its programme

Already, this grasping family has over generations seized land from the English, the Scottish, the Welsh and the Irish, from which they make a hyper-privileged living at our expense. More recently, they have laid claim to the seabed surrounding Britain and double the benefit by letting it out for windfarms. They privately own vast estates. And now, they also want to remove yet more land from us. What is wrong with us that we allow this to continue?

The Windsor Great Park Environmental Centre is a children’s nature hub

Even more ironic.

I hope they reimburse the costs of BBOWT having to relocate the environmental centre.

What are the children affected doing in the meantime? Early years are so important!

Unlike everywhere else on this island. My local woods have been hacked down and replaced with two massive housing estates, a second estate has been built at the other end of the village, and now we’ve been told the fields in the centre of the village are going to be built on as well. The country lanes now have bumper to bumper traffic, and at night I am woken by the screeching and exploding of boy racer twats in their souped up cars. I don’t even go into my local town anymore because I just can’t stand the noise. Besides, I’d never get parked. I sometimes think this will only end when southern England is just one giant new build housing estate.

Anyone on MN who lives in a city and thinks they are going to retire to some idyllic, sleepy little village is living in la la land. By the time you retire there won’t BE any villages, just housing estates.

I live in Windsor, we’re perfectly fine with the new arrangement. There is lots of other land to use and many other walks. I don’t see why some people are apparently upset.

skirting the Wales plot.

It's not quite that simple.

Prince William and Kate Middleton leave new neighbours furious following move - Daily Record https://share.google/uDjGtd4A6EKm96REc

Because they want to be 🤷‍♀️

Turn Royal Lodge into the new environmental center. After an spiritual cleansing.

The Windsor Great Park Children's Centre was commissioned
and paid for
by The Crown Estate, a public body managing Crown lands, with planning for the £29.2m project approved around 2013.

this is hilarious

Recently laid claim to the seabed???
I don’t consider the Norman Conquest that recent

Anything not owned by others is part of the Crown estate.

Crown land is owned by anyone who is the monarch at the time.
The locals have lost a tiny portion of the crown estate. The rest they can still walk over. They don’t own it

I'm glad to have contributed to your mental wellbeing 😊

The simplest thing to prevent future outrage would be to close Crown Estate property to the public except for legal rights of way such as footpaths and bridleways.

That would ensure any changes in use don't affect the public.

“Garden”? Do you have any idea how big 150 acres actually is?

Actually, I don't think it is.

Which is part of the reason people are so upset.

I believe it is public land.

Legally it isn't, though?

Morally is another matter. But I think we need to have that discussion in the light of all landowners and all land, rather than just the RF - and apply the same standards to the RF and Crown Estate as other landowners, including the National Trust, MoD etc.

No it isn’t public land. Try reading the thread. And the posts from Windsor locals 😊