What is the problem?
Bradford is the fifth largest metropolitan district in England, and home to over 530,000 residents. Bradford is a city of parks and urban green spaces which offer city residents vital spaces to relax and unwind. The links between green space and health are well-established, but unfortunately provision of the green spaces within our population is not equal.
Families living in more deprived areas have less access to high quality green spaces and the health benefits they confer.
What have we found?
- Green space is linked to health and wellbeing of adults and children
- Green space provision and use in Bradford is not equal
- It’s quality not quantity that matters
- There are many barriers which stop families using green spaces
- Improving green spaces may encourage greater use
What has changed as a result?
Our findings have helped make the case for millions of pounds of investment into improve urban green spaces across the city.
This includes the Better Start Bradford Better Place project, which has made improvements to over 40 green spaces in three deprived wards of Bradford in the south of the city, and the Join Us: Move Play project working in deprived wards in the north of the City.
