Conservation Areas and Green Spaces
The City of London Corporation maintains around 10,000 acres (40 km2) of public green spaces – mainly conservation areas / nature reserves – in Greater London and the surrounding counties. The most well-known of the conservation areas are Hampstead Heath and Epping Forest. Other areas include Ashtead Common, Burnham Beeches, Highgate Wood and the City Commons (seven commons in south London).
Unusually, the Corporation also runs the unheated Parliament Hill Lido, as it is part of Hampstead Heath which the London Residuary Body with the agreement of the London Boroughs gave into the safekeeping of the City, for the benefit of the public, in 1989.
The City also owns and manages two traditional city parks: Queen's Park and West Ham Park as well as over 150 smaller public green spaces.
None of these facilities cost the local authorities, where they are situated, or their council tax payers anything.
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