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Access to green space

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

August 2023

  • Two tents on Dartmoor beside stream

    Labour would extend right to wild camp to all English national parks

  • A little girl plays on a bouncy rocking horse in a playground in Newcastle. There is a fenced-off slide in the background

    ‘The swings are missing’: Children in Newcastle left with nowhere to play

  • Abandoned slide in overgrown grass at a playground

    England’s playgrounds crumble as council budgets fall

  • Two tents by a stream on Dartmoor

    The Guardian view on wild camping at Dartmoor: immersion in beauty is legal after all

July 2023

  • Two people in a gathering hold up a banner saying 'Defend Dartmoor' with hills in the background

    Wild camping allowed on Dartmoor again after court appeal succeeds

  • Members of the Watchtower Waders swimming club take a dip in Llanishen reservoir.

    ‘A wonderful moment’: Welsh reservoirs to reopen after 23-year battle

  • Protesters outside the high court appeal hearing hold a sign that reads ‘Right to Roam’

    Camping not recreation ‘because you are just asleep’, Dartmoor appeal told

  • Wild camping protesters held placards and flags as they gathered in the village of Cornwood on the edge of Dartmoor, in south-west England, in January 2023.

    ‘Captured the public zeitgeist’: Court to hear appeal against England wild camping ban

  • Outdoor play campaigners call for UK traffic curbs to protect children

  • Kids v cars: the campaign to reclaim children's play space on British streets – video

June 2023

  • Two children stand outside Hatcham Gardens, a boarded-up playground in Lewisham, south London.

    ‘Most of our children live in flats’: London park boarded up by developers

    Peabody yet to restore park after finishing construction work in 2020, leaving children with no green space
  • Trees on a street in Hackney, London.

    Watering Wednesday campaign aims to get UK streets to look after local trees

    Charity Trees for Streets says dry weather has put pressure on saplings, which need about 50 litres a week
  • Hatfield House in Hertfordshire.

    Aristocrat forced to open part of estate to public after council ruling

    Hertfordshire council rules area of land on Hatfield House estate – owned by Marquess of Salisbury – is common land

May 2023

  • People demonstrate in favour of keeping the Kibble Palace free to enter.

    Glasgow up in arms over proposed entrance fee for Kibble Palace

  • Walthamstow wetlands.

    Labour vows to introduce Scottish-style right to roam law in England

  • Man standing on Loch Rannoch, Perthshire, Scotland

    Scots have the right idea about roaming

  • Two ramblers cross a fence in a field in Penrith and the Border

    92 constituencies in England allow no right to roam, data shows

  • Women should help design UK parks to tackle safety fears, says study

  • Cornish farm launches project to triple UK’s temperate rainforest

  • Writers join locals in protest against ‘neglect’ of medieval Cowpasture Lane

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