Open Spaces Society

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The Open Spaces Society is a UK campaign group to protect public rights of way and common land. It was founded in 1865. The Open Spaces Society is critical of the present trend of privatisation of UK city centres taking place as a part of urban regeneration, which it sees as a form of enclosure of urban streets. It is worried that places such as Liverpool's Paradise Project are revoking public rights of way, and that in future access may no longer be granted universally to citizens wishing to enter the city centre's streets. ^[1]