Dilution of claim: Whitstable beach and the down from Londoners A number of the inhabitants of Whitstable in Kent were forced to stake out their community or ‘locality’ when they sought to register a stretch of beach as a village green. Their attempt to do so was in response to the perceived risks of ‘enclosure’ of the beach, in the form of its economic development (the likely extension of an existing restaurant on the beach front, and the development and use of beach huts as accommodation for visitors to the restaurant) from its present owners, the entrepreneurial proprietors of the Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company. When trying, in the course of a non-statutory public inquiry, to demonstrate a nexus between local inhabitants and the beach, …show more content…
Following the inspector’s recommendations, in 2002 the County Council rejected the application to register the beach as a town or village green under s. 22 of the Commons Registration Act 1965 (now superseded by s. 15 of the Commons Act 2006). What follows is based on our own attendance at the inquiry, and documentation made available at the inquiry and the inspector’s report and recommendations. The proceedings were adversarial, with at times a great deal of animosity expressed between the parties, and were governed by a select group of planning barristers, fully conversant with the complexities of this area of law, and who conducted an, at times, fierce cross-questioning of the applicant’s (Whitstable Preservation Society’s) witnesses. 21 In terms of locality, the central issues at the inquiry were first, ‘is there an identifiable locality or neighbourhood within a locality whose actions found the right to register the beach as a town or village green?’ and second, ‘what is a ‘‘significant’’ number of inhabitants of the locality or neighbourhood within a locality’. On the first issue, the objectors (the current owner and potential developer of the beach) made much of the difficulties of establishing the boundaries of any …show more content…
Although an area ‘known to the law’, 22 when the applicants’ witnesses were invited by the objectors to identify themselves with the ward, they could not establish that the ward was a sufficiently defined locality or neighbourhood. The principal objectors went to great lengths to show that none of the traditional activities that might be associated with a locality or neighbourhood – churches, schools, voluntary associations and so on – took their participants solely from that area. The argument was therefore that the locality or neighbourhood should enjoy some ‘innate identity’ or ‘community’, but that it did not. The principal judicial authority for either of these tests for establishing a locality is found in Steed: (‘[W]hatever its precise limits, it [the locality] should connote something more than a place or geographical area – rather, a distinct and identifiable community, such as might reasonably lay claim to a town or village green as of right’ 23 ). Such an understanding of locality (as well as the newly introduced concept of ‘neighbourhood within a locality’) does not, as noted above, fit
The whole island is in the shape of a giant square with white sandy beaches full of people sunbathing, swimming and fishing right on the shoreline. From the end of the hot pavement parking lot to shore of the beach is an ocean of soft white sand. The pearlescent white sand seems to know how to invade every nook and cranny almost as if it enjoys it. Walking around the beach on the fluffy whiteness surrounding the parking lot, the seagulls are fighting over scraps of food on the ground. “Sandy beach ecosystems provide invaluable services to humankind. Their functions have been exploited through history, with significant anthropogenic effects (Lucrezi, 2015)”. This white sandy beach is a beautiful refuge from the mundane grind of everyday life. The smell of the misty ocean air mixed with the sound of seagulls hovering above and kids playing is a tonic for the mind. The feel of the sand between their toes and the waves crashing over them as people swim in the water, or the jerk of a fishing pole when someone is catching a fish makes Fred Howard Park one of the best places to relax. Standing on the beach looking out on the water, people are kayaking and windsurfing. The lifeguards watching vigilantly in their bright red shirt and shorts, blowing their whistles when they see someone being unsafe. After a long day of swimming and laying around visitors head back over the soft white sand to the showers, in order to rinse off the menacing sand that clings to everything like a bad habit. Everyone rushes over the hot pavement burning their feet to reach their cars so they can put away their beach paraphernalia which is still covered in the white sand, nearly impossible to completely leave behind, so when they get home it serves as a reminder of where they were that
The Grassy Narrows people have a long, deeply rooted history in the environmental justices movement. Rodgers (2009) points to a number of environmental justice struggles such as the fight against the harmful effects of mercury poisoning and the Minamata disease associated with it (para. 1-3), the Ontario Hydro dams that destroyed part of the wild rice harvest and degraded the habitat of fish and fur animals, as well as the displacement of the community (due to relocation into prefabricated houses where electricity and running water were promised) and the culture shock it created (para. 4). He also discusses the successful blockade in 2002, which is the longest-lasting blockade in Canadian history (para. 28)—an example that shows how employing legal methods were critical in the struggle against environmental injustices for this community. There are a number of other issues that will be discussed in the following paragraphs; the above are just a few of the injustices the Grassy Narrows community face.
The dissent believes that the taking in this case is supported by statutory laws that the government is not taking over the private property, it’s not engaging in some form of physical invasion, or limiting the use of a landowner 's property in certain respects, if the public interest in regards to safety and/or the prevention of harm. The dissent struggles that Beachfront management act of 1986 expanded the critical areas to protect shoreline erosion which also include the ramifications that these actions can be taken without compensation in this case. Also, Lucas can still engage in recreational activities such picnic, swim, ...
In the book The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization’s Rough Landscape, the author, Harm de Blij, argues that where we are born and our geography can affect who we are and what we will become. He applies his knowledge of geography and other relatable information such as health, economy, languages, and several other areas of subject. De Blij categorizes the earth into three subdivisions: locals, globals, and mobals. He defines locals as “those who are poorest, least mobile, and most susceptible to the power of place” (pg-notes). Globals are those who “whether in government, industry, business, or other decision-making capacities, flatten
In this short essay Bill Daly begins by telling us that he will be assessing arguments to keep marine parks open and he will be point out reasons why they actually don’t carry any weight. The overall conclusion that daily made in this essay was that marine parks should no longer be kept open because they are useless and in some ways can be considered to be animal cruelty or no new animals should be captured for their uses. In the essay I found that there were four major premises that can clearly be found. The first major premises can be found in the second paragraph, where it says that ‘there are many more locations where the marine life can be found naturally compared to marine parks’ (Bill Daly, para 2). The second premise was located in the third paragraph, where the Daly tells us the ‘by moving the marine life out of its natural habitat we are affecting their behaviour and making any research that is conducted on them unreliable when it comes to their natural behaviour’ (para 3). The third major premise that I found was in the fourth paragraph, where it says that the ‘parks could be considered tourist attractions but a majority of tourists come to see wildlife in its natural habitat and not in cages’ (para 4). The fourth and final premise that I found was in the fifth paragraph, in this paragraph Daly says that ‘the parks can be cruel to the animals they hold because they put a restriction the freedom they would normally have in the wild’ (para 5). In the end I believe that Daly has created a good inductive argument against the use and creation of marine parks.
(7)Taylor and Francis as: Pendlebury, J, Alas Smith and Burns. (2001). Conservation in Newcastle upon Tyne City Centre 1959- 1968. Conservation in Newcastle upon Tyne city centre 1959-68, Planning Perspectives . 16 (2), p15-17.
Gloucester Massachusetts is known for its fishing industry. Over 1200 people’s jobs in Gloucester lay in the fishing industry. The fishing industry first derived when people from Europe came over looking for a better life. Gloucester is America’s oldest seaport, and now it is fighting to survive. Now with new rules, and diseases in the sea, the fishing industry will never be what it was decades ago.
There are two different perspectives towards the term of ethnic enclaves: singularity and multiplicity outlook. The term was separated into two by confusions created by misinterpretation of scholarly definition. Sanders and Nee claimed that these districts contain “immigrant groups which concentrate in a distinct spatial location and organize a variety of enterprises serving their own ethnic market and/or the general population” (Luk, & Phan, 2006, 18). This was taken directly off Portes’ publication. This denotation leads people to conduct further research on multiplicity perspective.
“The Beach Builders” by John Seabrook (The New Yorker, 2012) is a nonfiction article on the significance of Jersey Shore. This shore is said to have been the first developed coastline in the United States. Jersey shore is also known as the place where “Americans learned to love the beach”. John started off with historical facts dating from the March 1962 storm. This storm is also known as the Five High Storm. The work of the mayor Jonathan Oldham, of Harvey Cedars, was also described. The article focuses on the events that followed Five High Storm. A great emphasis on the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) has been given. Credit for securing build a wide beach at Harvey Cedars was also given to ACE. This beach is nearly a hundred and twenty-five feet and consisted of twenty-two feet above sea level dunes. The beach required 2.7 million cubic yards of sand. This project is estimated to have cost twenty-six million dollars, in the 1960s. John Seabrook also mentioned the legal and political conflicts of building this beach.
Social location plays a huge role in our day-to-day life. We 're classified by social class, education, gender, race, ethnicity, and the culture. Henslin (2015) notes, “One of the beautiful and fascination aspects of sociology is that it enables us to look at both parts of our current reality: being part of a global network and having unique experiences in our smaller corners of life” (p. 3). That statement is what draws me into sociology, we know that everyone 's treated different, and get more privileges than others based on social
The ways in which people are placed within “time space compression” as highly complicated and extremely varied. For instance, in the book Nickel and Dimed, Barbara said, “ Something is wrong, very wrong, when a single person in good health, a person who in addition possesses a working car, can barely support herself by the sweat of her brow. You do not need a degree in economics to see that wages are too low and rents too high”(127). Barbara has a car so that she can drive to her workplace and save the time from waiting public transportation, and she also can go to different cities whenever she is free. Therefore, she has more control of her mobility. The social relations would change when she went to another city. Different social groups have distinct relationships to this anyway differentiated mobility: some people are more in charge of it than others, like Barbara; some initiate flows and movement, others do not; some are more more on the receiving-end of it than others. Instead of thinking of places as areas with boundaries around, they can be imaged as articulated moments in networks of social relations and understandings, but where a large proportion of those relations, experiences and understandings are structed ona far larger scale than what we happen to define for that moment as the place itself, whether that be a street, or a region or even a continent. We can see that from her different work experiences in different places. And this in turn allows a sense of place which is extroverted, which includes a consciousness of its links with the wider world, which integrates ina apositive way the global and the
Although southern beaches in the United States were originally composed of swamp land, sand was added to cover these swamp areas in the 1950s to make them resemble traditional beaches present in other coastal areas of the world, and therefore more appealing for human use and recreation (York). In her poem “Theories of Time and Space,” Trethewey directly references these spaces that have been changed under human influence, giving navigational directions to the reader to “cross over / the man-made beach, 26 miles of sand / dumped on the mangrove swamp – buried / terrain of the past” (11-14). The words “cross over” insinuates a passing by, or traversing of the “man-made beach” without much thought by whoever is traveling over it. The scenario is further illuminated by Trethewey’s use of the word “dumped” when describing the scenery as being “buried terrain of the past,” both holding a negative connotation which hint at something being deliberately concealed under the non-native
A sense of place is the ideology that people possess when they feel that they belong to a given surrounding. Therefore, through their existence and a sense of belonging on a given environment, people do tend to have a special connection with their immediate surroundings, and therefore, they will do everything to protect their habitat. This, in a sense, is instrumental in affecting the positionality of people with such belonging to one given
-Common Law: the “law of the land”(Pool 127), which was built up over many centuries
‘Through identifying places and organizing them, we make sense of the world we inhibit’ (Unwin,