{"id":23098,"date":"2026-04-27T11:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/23098\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:05:15","slug":"statement-in-response-to-a-public-paper-on-future-access-options-at-hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/23098\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement in response to a public paper on future access options at Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statement for publication<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the City of London Corporation, which manages Hampstead Heath as a registered charity, said:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCity of London Corporation officers have set out a report on the future access arrangements for the Hampstead Heath bathing ponds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report includes a range of options alongside a recommendation to maintain the current trans\u2011inclusive arrangements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo decisions have been taken at this stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll options have been informed by our recent public consultation, expert legal advice, equality impact assessments, safeguarding responsibilities, and operational requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of our formal governance process, the Hampstead Heath Consultative Committee, which brings together local stakeholder groups, will discuss the paper and provide feedback on 5 May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report will then be put forward to Members of the Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood &amp; Queen\u2019s Park Committee at their public meeting on 12 May and Policy &amp; Resources Committee on 4 June 2026 for decision, with feedback carried forward at each stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk\/documents\/s232077\/Hampstead%20Heath%20Bathing%20Ponds%20Future%20Access%20Options%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk\/documents\/s232077\/Hampstead%20Heath%20Bathing%20Ponds%20Future%20Access%20Options%20Report.pdf<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        &#8216;;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Statement for publication A spokesperson for the City of London Corporation, which manages Hampstead Heath as a registered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[616,27,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-23098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-city-of-london","9":"tag-london","10":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116476347838192379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}