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Access to green space

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

November 2023

  • Two people with dogs walking along a track in Cardinham Woods in Bodmin, Cornwall

    Health benefits of being in nature worth £356 an adult in 2020, ONS data shows

  • Farthing Downs, part of the green belt land to the south of London.

    Building on the green belt is no solution to the housing crisis

  • Bungalows situated on the edge of green belt land in Sheffield.

    England’s nature chief calls for building on green belt to solve housing crisis

  • A discarded water bottle

    Litter blighting UK footpaths with Lucozade bottles most often found, says study

  • Giving city dwellers access to nature is key aim, says National Trust

  • Walk the walk: the app mapping 140,000 miles of public right of way

October 2023

  • Two young birdwatchers, one holding a pair of binoculars, look out from a hide

    The age of extinction
    RSPB to give young people free access to its nature reserves in ‘youth revolution’

    Conservation charity will roll out two-year pilot scheme across UK as it seeks to increase young people’s engagement with nature
  • A Right to Roam demonstration, march and rally near Carlisle last month.

    Labour U-turns on promise of Scottish-style right to roam in England

    Exclusive: Party says it will find other ways to create more access to countryside after opposition from landowners

    • Green spaces in poorer parts of England more likely to be built on, study finds

    • Fruit, wildflowers, insects: the people transforming disused land in England

    • Minority communities are edged out of the UK’s green spaces. I’m trying to change that

      Haroon Mota

September 2023

  • Aerial view over Sweet Briar Marshes in Norwich

    New nature reserve to act as ‘green beating heart’ for Norwich

  • A worker carries a hod of bricks

    MPs vow to fight new plans to scrap pollution rules for housebuilders

  • Sheffield city centre seen from an urban wildflower meadow. The report says the government’s levelling up strategy should include provisions for urban greenery.

    Give Britons the right to plant to green up public spaces, Gove adviser says

  • A park in Brussels.

    Pollutionwatch
    Why a Belgian insurer studies the impact of air pollution on health

  • Whitest parts of England and Wales have 144% more local paths, study finds

  • ‘Leisure land’: Cotswolds meadow locals campaign against sell-off plan

August 2023

  • Australian scientists found a surge in the number of insect species after the diversity of naive plants was increased in a single urban green space

    Plant diversity in urban green spaces led to sevenfold increase in insect species, study finds

    Scientists find ‘substantial ecological changes’ after greening initiative by major road in Melbourne, Australia
  • Cleeve Common near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

    First Edition newsletter
    Monday briefing: The long legal fight for the ‘right to roam’ England’s countryside

    In today’s newsletter: Will a court case over wild camping on Dartmoor spark bigger campaigns to open up more private green space?
  • Sunset at Hookney Tor on Dartmoor

    ‘It’s for the people’: wild campers enjoy court victory on Dartmoor

    Outdoor adventurers return to national park after ruling in appeal that restored right to wild camp
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