Member

As we have heard before, urban green space is not just important for health benefits. You also get stacked ecosystem services of natural capital from it; it is important for climate change mitigation, adaptation and nature recovery. We sorely need the spatial aspects of access to green or blue space written into legislation so that delivery is ensured both in the development of new housing developments and new towns and when building on brownfield sites. That is exactly the point of my two amendments and others in this group, and I hope the Minister will accept that more needs to be done to future-proof new developments for people and planet.