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Amenity - Green Spaces and Community Connections
Development should provide connected networks of public open spaces, play facilities, greenways and landscaped areas linking to nature, countryside, historic features, and water bodies.
Providing community greenways to establish connections with nature and the countryside, and local historic features, for residents in urban and rural areas by maintaining and building up an interlinked pattern of public open spaces, play facilities and landscaped areas, woodlands and wildlife habitats, pedestrian and cycle routes, linking to rivers, canals, coastal and inland waters, as well as respecting the rural setting of towns and villages.
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