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Go EastSide Webinar: How does Regeneration energise a community?

EastSide Greenways are pleased to announce the sixth in a series of webinars hosted by EastSide Greenways in partnership with Queen’s University Belfast. Our sixth webinar will explore the principles and practice of Urban Regeneration; ‘How does Regeneration energise a community?’ Guest speakers: Agustina Martire – Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Queens …

Liverpool news: Liverpool City Council announces ambitious plans to protect all parks in the city forever

Liverpool City Council has revealed plans which will mean no park in Liverpool can ever be built on or sold off. https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2021-03-19/liverpool-city-council-announces-all-parks-in-the-city-to-be-protected-forever The protection prevents the outdoor areas from being built on or sold off and covers 100 of the regions popular parks and green spaces, all adding up to …

GroundsWell Blog: Why we need to improve urban green spaces in a post-coronavirus world

For most of 2020, the outdoors was the only place we could exercise or socialise due to COVID-19. Green spaces have positive effects on our mental health and wellbeing, physical health and fitness, child development and social cohesion(1). Populations living in greener environments also have lower levels of differences in …

A call to action: Improving urban green spaces to reduce health inequalities exacerbated by COVID-19

Abstract Health is not equally distributed across society; there are avoidable, unfair, systematic differences in health between population groups. Some of these same groups (older people, BAME communities, those with some non-communicable diseases (NCDs)) may be particularly vulnerable to risk of exposure and severe COVID-19 outcomes due to co-morbidities, structural …

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Welcome to Groundswell GroundsWell is a large programme of work in three cities – Belfast, Edinburgh and Liverpool – focusing on developing, supporting and evaluating community urban green and blue spaces to promote health and well being for all.     Aug 8, 2018

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