Green Space Information

The Green Space Index is Fields in Trust's barometer of publicly accessible park and green space provision. Our Revaluing Parks and Green Spaces research demonstrates that these spaces across the UK provide people with over £34 billion of health and wellbeing benefits. We believe that green spaces are good, do good and need to be protected for good. Each year through the Green Space Index we take stock of the nation's quantity of local parks and green spaces and provide analysis on their impact.

From the moment we are born, through to old age, the environments we live in shape our lives and our wellbeing. Having a safe home, a sufficient income and support networks around us make a substantial contribution to a life in good health. And the

importance of our surroundings also extends to our natural environment. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has made many of us all the more aware of how

much we value and rely on our outdoor spaces to support our health and wellbeing.

There is increasingly compelling evidence showing that access to greenspaces really

matters for our health.

 The Land Trust is a charity that is committed to the long term sustainable management of open space for community benefit. 

We are passionate about identifying cost effective solutions to deliver high quality and sustainably maintained open space.

We work with land owners who, for a variety of reasons, want to pass on responsibility (and often liability) for the management of an area of land. Ahead of taking responsibility and ‘ownership’ we will identify and secure appropriate long-term funding (often in perpetuity) and management regimes, ensuring that the site has a sustainable future as green open space and crucially that it delivers against our charitable objectives.

We now have ownership or long term management responsibility for over 2,000 ha of land with more than 50 spaces across England and are currently working on taking our first sites in Scotland.

Point of view from side of steam train along branch line, Sussex to Kent, Eastbourne to Tunbridge Wells line. Southern Region. Hellingly Station on the 'Cuckoo Line'. Countryside seen from train. Passing locomotive 80149 on adjacent railway track. Heathfield Station. Going through a tunnel. Mayfield Station. Locomotive 80140 pulls into a station. Passing a sign saying 'Whistle'. Passing Redgate Mill Junction fireman or driver hands signalman token or key as this is single line track. Locomotive 80141. Passing through High Brooms Station, Kent. Views from train travelling through large junction. Tank engines shunting carriages at station. Miniature railway. Pigs in a pigsty. Man walks along track of miniature railway. 1960s trolleybuses. Small saddle tan engine 'Newcastle' (?) admired by steam enthusiasts pulls singe goods wagon along tracks. Signalman checking oil lamp. Rotherfield and Mark Cross signal box and station. Second Film Here

The Cuckoo Line then and now

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