The battle for north London’s public space
Boozing youngsters v the metropolitan elite
HAMPSTEAD HEATH is home to many fine creatures. Purse web spiders, green woodpeckers, brimstone butterflies and kestrels have all found peace in the oddity that is London’s 3.2 square kilometres of moorland. They roam happily alongside a near-mythical tribe: north London’s metropolitan elite. But the current chieftain, Marc Hutchinson, a solicitor and chair of the Heath & Hampstead Society, is unhappy with the heath’s most recent arrivals: drunken young people.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Parks and recriminations”
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