The UK government has no plans to meet its target for everyone to live within a 15-minute walk of a green space, the Guardian can reveal.

Ministers have also scrapped an idea to make the target for access to nature legally binding, a freedom of information request submitted by the Right to Roam campaign shows.

Launching the plans earlier this year, the then-environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, congratulated herself for the idea: “I am particularly pleased by our pledge in this plan to bring access to a green or blue space within 15 minutes’ walk of everyone’s homes – whether that be through parks, canals, rivers, countryside or coast,” she said.

But in response to a freedom of information request, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: “No assessment has yet gone to ministers on options for how to progress towards the commitment.”

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    1 year ago

    We’re safe from the 15 minute cities!!!

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      1 year ago

      Tory heroes save millions of hardworking families from being forced to walk 15 minutes every day by blocking draconian new proposals from councils that have been undemocratically taken over rabid russian anti-semitic communists.

      https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fpbFxMZHq3o

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        1 year ago

        God save the kintfvrvnfeceecfchrgkl