Open City: Deconstructed - 16 October 2025 (Plumstead Common)

Weekly programmes by Open City. Making architecture and cities more open, accessible, and equitable. Today: Deconstructed. Plumstead Common – Policing and Leisure in a Municipal Park. In this episode, the finale in a trilogy to mark 60 years since the end of the London County Council, Matthew Lloyd Roberts is joined by Dr Rosamund Lily West, Lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester. They discuss Plumstead Common, a municipal park in South East London, the site of riots over access to green space by the organised working class communities of Woolwich and one of the first public parks adopted by the newly created London County Council. They explore the complex history of late-Victorian urban parks, the hierarchies of their administration and the policing of their use.

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