HC Deb 15 March 1841 vol 57 c243
Mr. Wakley

said, that several paragraphs had lately appeared in the public journals, as to the intention of the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests to plant the Green Park, and to encroach considerably on the privileges which the public now enjoyed there; he wished, therefore, to ask the hon. Gentleman, the Secretary to the Treasury, whether there was any just foundation for any or all of those paragraphs.

Mr. Edward J. Stanley

said, that almost all the statements which had appeared in the public journals were incorrect; there was no intention on the part of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, to exclude the public from any portion of the Park to which they had hitherto had access. There was no intension to shut it up for planting, or to erect entrance-lodges, and close it at night. The works going on at present were solely for the purpose of draining, and of sowing the Park with grass seeds; and, of course, till these seeds sprung up, it would be necessary to have some temporary fences.

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