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NEW Join the Urban Green Space Campaign
The Society for the Protection of Urban Green Space is affiliated to Plymouth University.
The current economic crisis is leading to many public parks and gardens, sports fields, children's playgrounds and school playing fields in our towns and cities being used for building projects, turned into car parks or enclosed for other private commercial use and lost forever. For ease of maintenance, some green spaces are being paved over. This trend to deplete our urban green space, the lungs of our cities, in an era of global warming and population increase, is dangerous for our health and for our quality of life.
The petition below is being circulated around Europe to collect signatures to send to the European Commission asking for urgent action to be taken.
We, the undersigned citizens of the European Union, request EU legislation to protect all urban green space including public parks and gardens, sports fields, allotments, children's playgrounds and playing fields and also to guarantee continued public access to these areas.
We are aiming at collecting one million signatures and ask you to help.
Please sign the petition online and print out the petition form to start collecting signatures
Visit them at www.urbangreenspacecampaign.org/