Play park
King George Recreation Ground
Eight hectares of proper park — a splash pad, a big play area, tennis courts and a café for the grown-ups. The meadow and the park make a fine pair for a day out.
Find it on the map →Bushey
Bushey, Hertfordshire
Up to 280 homes (revised to up to 256) are planned on the Bushey green-belt field at Harts Farm, east of Little Bushey Lane — open countryside and flood-risk land under threat of concrete. Councillors refused it; the developer is appealing.
Find it on the map: open in OpenStreetMap →
The threat
Up to 280 homes could take the Bushey green-belt field — open countryside under the diggers.
Planning ref: 24/1522/OUT →✕Join the defence of Bushey
One tap, no account, no email — the field keeps a ledger of its friends. Be the first to defend this field
“You can't protect a field you've never loved. Stand with this one — and bring someone to meet it.”
Make a day of it
The meadow doesn't end at the hedge. Around it stands a whole village that has stood with her for a thousand years — the church on the hill, the hall where they dance, the swings where they squeal. Go on, make a day of it. The field will still be here when you get back. She's very patient.
Church
Sacred Heart & St John the Evangelist RC Church
A friendly Catholic church in the heart of Bushey, with a parish centre the village books for its doings.
Find it on the map →“Look after each other out here. Come in twos and threes, bring a torch if you're about after dark, and keep an eye on the little ones and the slow ones. I'd watch over you myself, but I'm a scarecrow — my watching's mostly for the crows. So you be each other's guardians. That's the village way.”
How you can help
Say it should be saved
Objections and public support count at every step — the Local Plan consultation decides which green-belt sites get allocated.
Have your say →Keep in touch
Follow the field's progress and hear when Rusty will be along — or volunteer to lend a hand with the field team.
Get involved →Know another field?
There are plenty more in the shire. Send us a meadow you love and Rusty will give it a proper look.
Send a field →The shire is wide, and every field in it deserves a walk.