Doctors urged to use health reforms to prescribe gardening treatment
13 Apr 2012
Doctors should prescribe gardening to people experiencing depression and other forms of ill health, the president of the Royal College of Physicians has said.
We asked industry leaders what legislation changes the Government could make that would help them.
Doctors should prescribe gardening to people experiencing depression and other forms of ill health, the president of the Royal College of Physicians has said.
Garden Centre Group (GCG) chief executive Nicholas Marshall has labelled the Easter Sunday trading ban bizarre and suggested that some other centres might break the law to open.
Industry bodies will take united lobbying to Parliament in their bid to secure drought exemptions for landscaping projects.
Garden centres see potential tax cuts and opening hour benefits cancelled out by fuel duty hike.
HW asked industry figures whether chancellor George Osborne's Budget last week was a positive or negative for them.
A list of measures announced that may impact on horticultural businesses, updated live throughout the Chancellor's speech.
David Cameron has promised to "apply the principles of garden cities", including more open space and characterful housing, as part of its overhaul of planning in England.
Sunday trading laws are expected to be suspended by the government on eight weekends from 22 July during the Olympics and Paralympics.
Garden industry lobbying wins water company exemptions in moves to ease impact of hosepipe bans on garden sector.
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