Parks near new homes shrink 40% as developers say they cannot afford them

People living in developments built after 2000 were about 5% less likely to visit green space once a week. Photograph: Alamy

New homes have a dwindling amount of green space because property developers claim they cannot afford to build parks, research has found.

Analysis from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) looked at data from the Office for National Statistics, data on the average age of local housing stock from Datadaptive and national survey data on public perceptions of local green space from the government agency Natural England.