The Royal Horticultural Society have launched a campaign aiming to reduce the impact of the loss of garden space to driveways and paving, following the publication of its report which analyses the plant coverage of garden spaces and concerns relating to flooding and health.
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) writes:
Greening Grey Britain is a new campaign to tackle the growing number of grey spaces spreading across our comunities and transform them into beautiful green places. It is an RHS call to action to get the nation growing, to address the creeping loss of green spaces across our towns, cities and villages.
In 2015, parks face a crippling lack of proper funding, and gardens continue to lose out to paving for cars. This trend for grey replacing green degrades the living environment, increasing flood risk and reducing air quality. It also has dire consequences for wildlife and has been linked to growing mental and physical health problems.
Greening Grey Britain sets out to challenge this. We want to work together with Bloomers, community groups and schools to see thousands of grey spaces transformed into great green places for people and wildlife.
