

Parks and Green Spaces -Paradise Lost or Merely Invisible?
It should be well-known within the green spaces sector that the word paradise, meaning a place of peace, health, prosperity and harmony, is derived from the old Persian, pairi-daêza, for a park or garden. Clearly, the link between good quality green spac es and human well-being has long been long recognised. The need for thriving communities to have access to attractive open spaces which provide rich experiences seems completely self-evident, in the same way they need good sc