Living Within 15 Minutes of a Green Space or Water?

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Every home will be within 15 minutes walk of a natural green space or water. Other pledges include improving air pollution and looking at what we do with the wastewater. But experts say there's an awful lot of gaps as well, unfortunately. Some of these pledges sound good on the surface, but they also sound a little bit vague.

This week the government published a major environmental improvement plan for England. It has pledged that every household will be within a 15-minute walk of green space or water, the restoration of 1.2m acres of wildlife habitat, and that sewage spills will be tackled with upgrades to wastewater treatment works. Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s environment editor, Fiona Harvey, about the state of nature in the UK, what this plan promises to do, and whether it’s ambitious enough to halt and reverse damage done.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod