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A crucial year for the UK’s parks and green spaces Partnerships with the City of Edinburgh Council and the County Borough of Wrexham have also secured multiple green-space portfolios for the communities in those cities. Over the last two years we have relied on our local green spaces more than ever; a vital part of the local environment helping us rebalance and recover. Alongside their value for health and wellbeing, urban parks increasingly have a role to play in the mitigation of climate change, but parks and green spaces are not equally distributed across the UK.
Green Space charity Fields in Trust has published a 2021 Impact Report detailing their work to champion, support and protect parks and green spaces across the UK.
It was a significant year for Fields in Trust, a pioneering partnership with Liverpool City Council was announced in March 2021. The council are legally protecting all the city’s parks and green spaces,
forever. Securing 100 parks, totalling over 1,000 hectares, Liverpool will become the first city in the UK where everyone lives no more than a ten-minute walk from a legally protected green space.
Time to celebrate at BTME The British & International Golf Greenkeepers Association (BIGGA) is proud to reveal that AMS Robotics has become lead sponsor of the BIGGA Welcome Celebration, taking place on the opening night of BTME 2022.
personality Naga Munchetty, the BIGGA Welcome Celebration is an informal event that recognises the achievements of BIGGA members throughout the previous year, including the presentation of the BIGGA Awards 2022.
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The free-to-attend welcome event takes place in the Main Auditorium
of the Harrogate Convention Centre and will recognise the many people who have contributed positively to the industry since the previous BTME in January 2020. For more information on BTME 2022 go to our Professional Groundscare supplement. BIGGA
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In May, Fields in Trust President, HRH The Duke of Cambridge launched the 2021 edition of the Green Space Index – Fields in Trust’s pioneering initiative to quantify and analyse inequality of access to local green space.
Fields in Trust Chief Executive Helen Griffiths said: “We have seen a major shift in the way people talk about, visit and value their local parks. “Our parks have provided a lifeline throughout lockdown and now, coming out of the pandemic, we can all play our part to make sure local green spaces will remain a healthy part of the local environment contributing to our wellbeing, our community connections and mitigating the impact of climate change.
More than 60 nature, planning, health and equality organisations have launched a new ‘Nature For Everyone’ campaign, calling for a ‘legal right to nature’ to be a key component of the Government’s Levelling Up reforms.
The coalition behind the campaign have launched a petition and written to Secretary of State Michael Gove calling for Government
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There is strong evidence that accessible nature-rich spaces boost our physical and mental wellbeing, and reduce mortality. Groundswork UK Enquiry 3
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to: make equal access to thriving natural spaces a key measure of success for Levelling Up; set legal duties in Levelling Up legislation for developers and public bodies to provide equal access to naturerich green and blue spaces for everyone; and provide funding for locally-accessible nature-rich spaces including extending the Levelling Up Fund to green and blue infrastructure projects.
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“We must make sure they will be protected and available for the whole community and for future generations”
Campaign calls for a ‘legal right to local nature’
The calls follow the recent publication of the Levelling Up White Paper, by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Local Communities.
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The visit took place as part of the royal visit to Scotland in advance of the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow.
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