green spaces

Salford goes to court to protect green space

09.09.2020

Laura Edgar

Environmental | green spaces | Housing | North West | Planning Law | salford city council

Salford City Council’s decision that developer Peel L&P cannot build 600 homes at Broadoak in Worsley has been upheld by the Court of Appeal.
Green space improves children’s IQ and behaviour

24.08.2020

Huw Morris

children | Environmental | green spaces | Hasselt University | Health | Infrastructure - Green | IQ | Research | Sports & Recreation | UK

Children who live in green urban areas have higher intelligence and lower levels of difficult behaviour, according to research.
Why ‘lockdown’ needs to change the way we view and value green space

23.06.2020

John Haxworth

Barton WIllmore | Coronavirus | Environmental | green spaces | Infrastructure - Green | parks | UK

Coronavirus and the resulting lockdown has exposed some weaknesses in the way our communities and neighbourhoods have been planned. One of them is access to green space. John Haxworth says...
Poll: 71% of people want to see local green space enhanced

10.06.2020

Laura Edgar

Coronavirus | countryside | CPRE | England | Environmental | green spaces | nature

More than two-thirds (71 per cent) of adults in England think that their local green space or nearby countryside could be enhanced.
£13 million government cash for parks

18.02.2019

Laura Edgar

England | Environmental | green spaces | james brokenshire | parks | pocket parks

Communities secretary James Brokenshire has offered £13 million to councils to support existing and create new parks and green spaces.
UK parks deliver £34bn of health benefits, suggests report

09.05.2018

Laura Edgar

Environmental | fields in trust | green spaces | Health | parks | UK | wellbeing

Parks and green spaces in the United Kingdom provide people with over £34 billion of health and well-being benefits, according to charity Fields in Trust.