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Fight for It Now - John Dower and the Struggle for National Parks in Britain (Hardcover)
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Fight for It Now - John Dower and the Struggle for National Parks in Britain (Hardcover)
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National Parks are Britain's breathing spaces - protected areas
enjoyed by the millions of visitors attracted every year by their
tranquillity, beauty and landscape. Fifteen National Parks cover a
significant share of Britain's total land area - 10 per cent of
England, 20 per cent of Wales, and 7 per cent of Scotland. Yet
despite their importance, few people today are aware of the
campaign in the 1930s and 1940s to establish National Parks. And
fewer still know the name of the man who was its principal driving
force. John Dower was an architect, a planner, a prodigious walker,
an accomplished writer and, above all, a fighter. Fight for It Now
is the first biography to be written about him, and the title
reflects his one great objective and the increasing urgency of
attaining it as his health declined. Drawing on extensive national
archives and his private papers and letters, the book describes
Dower's early work with pressure groups like the Friends of the
Lake District and the Council for the Protection of Rural England,
and then his subsequent move during the Second World War to an
influential position inside government, focusing on post-war
reconstruction. While German bombs were falling on British cities,
it was part of Dower's job to quarter the English countryside and
identify potential areas for National Parks. Dower's most
influential contribution was his 'one-man White Paper' National
Parks in England and Wales published at the end of the war in 1945.
The 'Dower Report' addressed key questions on the criteria for
selecting National Parks, where they should be located, who they
were for, and how they should be administered, and it paved the way
at last for the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside
Act. While overcoming opponents both outside and inside government,
Dower wrote continuously as though his project could only be
hammered out at white heat. And all the while, the one struggle he
knew he could not win was the tuberculosis that eventually killed
him, at the tragically early age of forty-seven.
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