Nicholas Dobson looks at a controversial fee uplift at the much-loved Hampstead swimming ponds, in this week’s NLJ
The fee rise met with ‘vociferous opposition’ as outraged swimmers who claimed the rise was exclusionary. The voluntary, self-policing fee policy was to be replaced with compulsory charges enforced by Heath Rangers.
Dobson traces the journey, outcome and implications of this case in which local people challenged government bureaucracy and lost.RELATED ARTICLES
