{"id":26122,"date":"2020-10-17T21:10:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T21:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26122"},"modified":"2020-10-17T21:10:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T21:10:59","slug":"drayton-field-permissive-access-ending-on-october-31st-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26122","title":{"rendered":"Drayton Field &#8211; Permissive access ending on October 31st 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101703.jpg\" alt=\"Drayton Field\" \/><br \/>\nDaniel sent me a picture of a notice that has been put up at the permissive entrances to <em>Drayton Field<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>DEFRA&#8217;s Environmental Stewardship conservation scheme<\/em> is run by Natural England, a government body. The scheme pays landowners for conserving the environment. In the case of this field it meant that the meadow grass and flowers were allowed to grow, and people were permitted to walk round the field.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101701.jpg\" alt=\"Drayton Field\" \/><br \/>\nAfter it became permissive,\u00a0gates were put in at the bottom end. There were also maps and information about the permissive access.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101711.jpg\" alt=\"Drayton Field\" \/><br \/>\nMost people access the field from a gap in the fence from Masefield Crescent Play Park. <\/p>\n<p>Before access became permissive, the fence was continually being mended and broken down. It would probably take a developer building houses on this field to stop dog walkers. This field is not in the local plan so there is not immediate chance of this.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101709.jpg\" alt=\"Drayton Field\" \/><br \/>\nThe most interesting feature of the field is the small wood at the south west corner.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101718.jpg\" alt=\"Drayton Field\" \/><br \/>\nThere are good views from that corner. You can see the Old Gaol and St Helen&#8217;s Church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101707.jpg\" alt=\"Drayton Field\" \/><br \/>\nA recent change is that the Morland Gardens estate can be seen to the east.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020101716.jpg\" alt=\"Drayton Field\" \/><br \/>\nAnother recent change is that Drayton village is visible to the south.<\/p>\n<p>Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council have identified this field as a possible site for a new cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel sent me a picture of a notice that has been put up at the permissive entrances to Drayton Field. DEFRA&#8217;s Environmental Stewardship conservation scheme is run by Natural England, a government body. The scheme pays landowners for conserving the environment. In the case of this field it meant that the meadow grass and flowers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}