More than half of the country’s parks have had to pull in extra resources to deal with littering and anti-social behaviour issues since lockdown was eased.

The Mayor of London has announced new projects that will improve Londoners’ access to nature and create an even greener city.
Sadiq Khan said that the plans to create two new woodlands, spanning over 84 hectares will be created in Havering and Enfield, will see nearly 140,000 trees planted. The woodlands will be located in London’s Green Belt, the majority of which is not public open space despite making up 22 per cent of the capital’s land area.

Eight proposals for tackling the climate emergency have been unanimously agreed by London Councils’ Leaders Committee.

The Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland will benefit from investment of up to £50 million as part of the Islands Growth Deal.

Government plans to boost levels of walking and cycling in the UK post-coronavirus are under threat from a minority of objectors.

MPs have stressed that the government has consistently failed to recognise the exact scale of challenge facing culture, sport and tourism.
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has said that the coronavirus crisis presents the biggest threat to UK's cultural infrastructure, institutions and workforce in a generation. However, the government has been ‘too slow’ to respond to the needs of the cultural and sporting sectors, with many organisations facing an ‘existential threat’ to their survival.

Sadiq Khan has launched the first online cycle training course for Londoners to give more people the confidence to start cycling.

Audit Wales has found that the public sector was spending up to £210 million reacting to, rather than preventing, rough sleeping.

The Public Accounts Committee has labelled the government's failure to plan for the economic impact of a pandemic as ‘astonishing’.

The government has said that care home residents in England can begin to be reunited with one of their loved ones.
Visits will resume in care homes once local authorities and local public health directors say it is safe. The government is publishing new guidance which is expected to say that residents will be limited to seeing the same one visitor, where possible.