Plant campaign joins green infrastructure partnership
18 May 2012
Greening the UK, the HTA-led campaign to promote plants and open green spaces, has joined Defra's fledgling Green Infrastructure Partnership.
Conference told that trees are 'key elements' in the new National Planning Policy Framework.
Greening the UK, the HTA-led campaign to promote plants and open green spaces, has joined Defra's fledgling Green Infrastructure Partnership.
Pressure group the Open Spaces Society is calling for a new single environmental body in Wales to focus on landscapes, common land and public paths.
Newly re-elected Mayor of London Boris Johnson has appointed an environment adviser and promised more green spaces and trees.
Arboricultural Association's technical officer says providing consistent tree valuation is 'on a hiding to nothing'.
Olympic Park Legacy Company director Mark Camley calls on the industry to work together to improve status of parks.
Campaigners raise concerns that plans for park could have wider implications for open spaces.
Partnership hears call for quality of space to be included in Government measure of deprivation.
Maintenance teams, plant spending and street trees all face cutbacks as local authorities battle to meet savings targets.
Doctors should prescribe gardening to people experiencing depression and other forms of ill health, the president of the Royal College of Physicians has said.
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