Critics say loss of public access to 31 acres of Dinton park goes against charities’ core values
For years, the rolling landscape of Dinton park has been a favourite haunt of dog walkers, runners and seekers of tranquility. When it snows children sledge down Toboggan Hill and during the Covid lockdowns, it became a place of solace and reflection. There is a beloved view of Salisbury Cathedral’s spire, which seems to float above the trees nine miles away.
But a decision by the National Trust to lease out the Neo-Grecian Philipps House at the heart of the estate and, more importantly for lovers of the landscape, fence off a large chunk of the parkland to give the new tenant privacy has caused uproar.