Green cheer

I've been in the Lake District for a few days, which got me pondering the way in which landscape (any landscape, it doesn't have to be A Grade) seems to make people more agreeable.

With impeccable timing, here's Natural England, arguing that people living in towns and cities should have:

• an accessible natural greenspace less than 300 metres (5 minutes walk) from home;
• statutory Local Nature Reserves at a minimum level of one hectare per thousand population;
• at least one accessible 20 hectare site within two kilometres of home; one accessible 100 hectare site within five kilometres of home; and one accessible 500 hectare site within ten kilometres of home.

There's a glossy, a report on accessible natural greenspace in towns and cities,
and a report on green networks with multiple uses in and around towns and cities.

Confession: the image is from Scotland, not the lakes.