Making Parks Count – the case for parks

In June 2020 The Parks Alliance (TPA) published ‘Making Parks Count’ – the business case for parks setting out why they matter and why they are a ‘smart investment’. The case illustrates how parks in England deliver over £6.6bn of health, climate change and environmental benefits each year including £2.2bn in avoided health costs alone and are worth £140 per year to each urban resident.

For every £1 spent on parks in England an estimated £7 in additional value for health and wellbeing and the environment is generated. The case clearly demonstrates that parks are a smart investment. Unfortunately, because these returns have never been properly understood, parks have suffered from years of under funding and there remain gross inequalities in access to quality green spaces across the country.

Making Parks Count presents the case for turning this around – download the full report here: https://www.theparksalliance.org/making-parks-count-the-case-for-parks/

Posted on 23rd July 2020