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We are delighted that our member, the Sunnybank and Woodhall Fields Community Group, in Thornbury, Leeds, has won its application for 1.9 hectares of Sunnybank Lane recreation ground to be registered as a town or village green.  This will protect the land for ever and give local people rights of recreation there. 

Members of the Woodhall F...


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Our general secretary, Kate Ashbrook, in her ‘Opinion’ in the autumn issue of Open Space, urges the government to recognise that nature cannot exist without people. 

‘I have the best job in government’ declared environment minister Jenny Riddell-Carpenter MP to the Wild Summit on 9 September, in her first speech in her new role. We agree: what could be better th...


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We have revealed that public access to the Midlands National Forest (520 square kilometres)1, established with the government’s financial support since the early 1990s, is collapsing.

There are 45 sites, which were open to public access within the forest by agreement between owners and public bodies such as the National Forest Company and the Forestry Commission, where...


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