Engels’ view on the loss of public space | Letters

Bob Dinn urges councils and mayors regulate private landlords’ restrictions on access and use of spaceThe contradictions of Friedrich Engels’ newly installed statue looking down on the private “public” space of Tony Wilson Place would not have escaped the young man living in 1840s Manchester. Privatisation of public land by stealth (The insidious creep of London’s pseudo-public land, 24 July) is subtly altering access to the city and its amenities. Ambiguous road ma