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Access to green space

Looking at the benefits of outdoor space, and who can access it

August 2024

  • Jackie Austin, who is 75, sits in the ginnel garden built by residents of Ventnor Avenue. She is smiling broadly and wearing a blue t-shirt. Behind her, the plants are decorated with fairy lights.

    ‘When it’s sunny, we get the barbecue out’: urban gardeners transform foul alleys into verdant havens

    Flowers, herbs and community spirit all flourishing in garden ginnels reclaimed from once-rubbish-strewn alleys
  • An aerial view of Milton Keynes

    Postwar new towns like Milton Keynes offer Labour a masterclass in planning

    Letters: Dr Alistair Fair and Ellie Brown respond to comments by the RIBA president, Muyiwa Oki, on Labour’s housebuilding plans. Plus Laura Steel on growing up in Washington, Tyne and Wear
  • Children clamber up logs on the Highfields Adventure Playground in Leicester

    End of the adventure: council funding cuts imperil Leicester’s playgrounds

    Decade of austerity blamed for impending closure of inner-city spaces that provide meals and outdoor activities

July 2024

  • A low and brown-looking river flowing underneath two bridges, with office buildings or blocks of flats in the background

    From water to wood-burning stoves: 11 green challenges Labour must solve

    New government faces massive task in repairing UK’s degraded environment and fighting climate crisis. Here’s what will be top of its in-tray

19 June 2024

  • Two young girls stand on the bonnet of a car parked on a residential street

    On These Magic Shores: exploring spaces for children’s play – in pictures

    Tamsyn Warde explores spaces in which children play in Hampshire, UK, examining how and where they play and where play belongs in their lives

18 June 2024

  • Distant view of Dulwich College in London from playing field and cricket nets.

    The Guardian view on children and green space: private schools need to open up

    Editorial: Huge disparities in state and private pupils’ access to outdoor physical education must be reduced
  • Damien Jordan, headteacher at Fairlight primary and nursery School in Brighton.

    ‘We have to be all things to our children’: how a school made sure pupils had time to play

    Brighton primary has worked with organisation to provide better quality time outside
  • A group of children play ring a roses outdoors during their school break

    Alarming lack of access to green space fuelling UK child obesity crisis, doctors warn

    Exclusive: Medics say children with poor access to outdoor play at school at higher risk of developing lifelong health problems

17 June 2024

  • Steve Chalke in a school corridor

    Indoors at breaktime: the school in a London office block

  • Illustration of a school surrounded by walls and buildings

    Children facing a ‘brutal’ loss of time and space for play at state schools

  • Royal Hospital school, in Suffolk.

    Private schools in England should be made to share their green space, say campaigners

  • Robert Verkaik

    Playing fields sold off, swimming pools closed down – state-school children don’t have a sporting chance

    Robert Verkaik

16 June 2024

  • Royal Hospital school, Holbrook.

    Beagling, golf and jolly hockey sticks: outdoor life at England’s largest private schools

    Guardian investigation reveals vast gap in outdoor space and lists the top 10 schools with the most of all
  • Winchester college’s science hall as seen from the banks of the River Itchen

    How England’s top private schools came to own 38,000 acres of land

    Students at top fee-paying institutions benefit from centuries of philanthropy originally intended to help the poor

    • How the Guardian investigated green space inequality at English schools

    • Green space could be even better for young brains than we realised

    • Revealed: students at top private schools have 10 times more green space than state pupils

6 June 2024

  • Three people paddle down a river in two canoes with trees on either side

    Communities will be given right to turn eyesores into parks, says Labour

  • Hills around a lake.

    Countryside access curbs in England ‘cost six times’ Scotland’s right to roam

May 2024

  • Ula Maria stands in her garden

    Forest bathing garden wins Chelsea flower show top prize

    First-time exhibitor Ula Maria scoops best in show for garden designed for muscular dystrophy charity
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