Downs for People

• News / Merchant Venturers

  Master of Merchant Venturers defends society’s control over Downs

  Campaigners say the society has been 'exercising power without responsibility for too long'

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• News / downs

  Renewed calls for Merchant Venturers to relinquish control of Downs

  "They have been exercising power without responsibility for too long"

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• News / The Downs

  Campaigners call for release of ‘confidential’ report into zoo parking on The Downs

  Council legal officers said it is 'not possible' to publish the report

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