The past 20 or so years of housing development in England and Wales has decimated community access to green space. That’s according to a new report from think tank the New Economics Foundation (NEF), which has brought together data on the age of housing developments, public green space provision and public perceptions of green space in their local area.
As an academic researching and writing the role of access to nature in health and wellbeing I was shocked by the detail of the report.
