{"id":420,"date":"2015-09-25T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidhealy.dublin13.com\/?p=420"},"modified":"2015-09-27T19:32:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T19:32:28","slug":"response-to-open-space-strategy-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Response to Open Space Strategy Consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/davidhealy.dublin13.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/response-to-open-space-consultation-24mf15.pdf\">response<\/a> to Fingal County Council&#8217;s consultation on <a href=\"https:\/\/consult.fingal.ie\/en\/chapter\/keeping-it-green-open-space-strategy-fingal\">Open Space Strategy<\/a> focussed on sustainability, especially reducing pesticide use in parks and open spaces.<\/p>\n<p>We have an entirely unnecessary habit of spraying herbicide at the base of every tree, hedge, fence and wall and I am proposing that this ends. Whether by alternative planting or by allowing Nature a bit of room, other places manage their trees without toxic chemicals. I included some photos of these as examples.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidhealy.dublin13.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3126.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-425 alignnone\" alt=\"IMG_3126\" src=\"http:\/\/davidhealy.dublin13.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3126-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3126-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3126-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3126-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\np { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }\n--><\/style>\n<p>Z\u00fcrich<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidhealy.dublin13.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3039.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-424\" alt=\"IMG_3039\" src=\"http:\/\/davidhealy.dublin13.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3039-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3039-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3039-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3039-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Houten, near Utrecht<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidhealy.dublin13.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSCF0960.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-423\" alt=\"DSCF0960\" src=\"http:\/\/davidhealy.dublin13.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSCF0960-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSCF0960-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSCF0960-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSCF0960-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Utrecht<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidhealy.dublin13.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-422\" alt=\"IMG_3022\" src=\"http:\/\/davidhealy.dublin13.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3022-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3022-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3022-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3022-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Houten, near Utrecht<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My response to Fingal County Council&#8217;s consultation on Open Space Strategy focussed on sustainability, especially reducing pesticide use in parks and open spaces. We have an entirely unnecessary habit of spraying herbicide at the base of every tree, hedge, fence and wall and I am proposing that this ends. Whether by alternative planting or by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}