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Access to green space

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

July 2024

  • A low and brown-looking river flowing underneath two bridges, with office buildings or blocks of flats in the background

    From water to wood-burning stoves: 11 green challenges Labour must solve

    New government faces massive task in repairing UK’s degraded environment and fighting climate crisis. Here’s what will be top of its in-tray

19 June 2024

  • Two young girls stand on the bonnet of a car parked on a residential street

    On These Magic Shores: exploring spaces for children’s play – in pictures

    Tamsyn Warde explores spaces in which children play in Hampshire, UK, examining how and where they play and where play belongs in their lives

18 June 2024

  • Distant view of Dulwich College in London from playing field and cricket nets.

    The Guardian view on children and green space: private schools need to open up

    Editorial: Huge disparities in state and private pupils’ access to outdoor physical education must be reduced
  • Damien Jordan, headteacher at Fairlight primary and nursery School in Brighton.

    ‘We have to be all things to our children’: how a school made sure pupils had time to play

    Brighton primary has worked with organisation to provide better quality time outside
  • A group of children play ring a roses outdoors during their school break

    Alarming lack of access to green space fuelling UK child obesity crisis, doctors warn

    Exclusive: Medics say children with poor access to outdoor play at school at higher risk of developing lifelong health problems

17 June 2024

  • Steve Chalke in a school corridor

    Indoors at breaktime: the school in a London office block

  • Illustration of a school surrounded by walls and buildings

    Children facing a ‘brutal’ loss of time and space for play at state schools

  • Royal Hospital school, in Suffolk.

    Private schools in England should be made to share their green space, say campaigners

  • Robert Verkaik

    Playing fields sold off, swimming pools closed down – state-school children don’t have a sporting chance

    Robert Verkaik

16 June 2024

  • Winchester college’s science hall as seen from the banks of the River Itchen

    How England’s top private schools came to own 38,000 acres of land

    Students at top fee-paying institutions benefit from centuries of philanthropy originally intended to help the poor
  • Royal Hospital school, Holbrook.

    Beagling, golf and jolly hockey sticks: outdoor life at England’s largest private schools

    Guardian investigation reveals vast gap in outdoor space and lists the top 10 schools with the most of all

    • How the Guardian investigated green space inequality at English schools

    • Green space could be even better for young brains than we realised

    • Revealed: students at top private schools have 10 times more green space than state pupils

6 June 2024

  • Three people paddle down a river in two canoes with trees on either side

    Communities will be given right to turn eyesores into parks, says Labour

  • Hills around a lake.

    Countryside access curbs in England ‘cost six times’ Scotland’s right to roam

May 2024

  • Ula Maria stands in her garden

    Forest bathing garden wins Chelsea flower show top prize

    First-time exhibitor Ula Maria scoops best in show for garden designed for muscular dystrophy charity
  • Rebecca Tamás

    Britain’s public parks are a green lifeline – stop fencing them off for the summer

    Rebecca Tamás
    These spaces are crucial for our wellbeing, but cash-strapped councils are being forced to treat them as revenue earners, says poet Rebecca Tamás
  • Jason Williams stands in an archway. In front of him is display of flowerbeds and plant pots laid out in a small area.

    UK tenants should have ‘right to garden’, leading horticulturist says

    Jason Williams, known as the cloud gardener, is campaigning for green spaces in new builds and rights for tenants to grow plants

April 2024

  • John Harris

    A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it

    John Harris
    From right to roam to anger over polluted rivers, a new breed of activists is pushing back against environmental destruction, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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