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<p>We know that there are significant health and wellbeing benefits to spending time
in nature. That is why we announced in our Environmental Improvement Plan in January
our intention to work across Government to ensure that everyone lives within a 15
minute walk of a blue or green space. We also committed to work in parallel to reduce
barriers to access.</p><p> </p><p>Achieving delivery of these cross government commitments,
to bring nature closer to people and reduce barriers to accessing it, is a long term
goal. We are currently focused on developing the right modelling tools and indicators
to allow us to accurately measure the baseline, identify where to target efforts and
to track future progress, engaging closely with stakeholders as we do so. At the same
time we continue to deliver existing work across Government in this area, such as
the Access for All programme, the Green Infrastructure Framework, the Levelling Up
Parks Fund and the Walking and Cycling Infrastructure Strategy.</p><p> </p><p>Access
on waterways, and other inland blue spaces such as lakes, where there is no established
public right of navigation should be arranged with the relevant landowners through
local voluntary access agreements, to ensure the interests of all parties concerned
are taken into account.</p>
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