Give Britons the right to plant to green up public spaces, Gove adviser says
by Helena Horton Environment reporter from Environment | The Guardian on (#6F2T2)
Thinktank Create Streets calls for people to be allowed to grow plants and trees in barren urban areas
A right to plant and grow trees and other greenery in public spaces should be given to people across Britain, an adviser to Michael Gove has said.
Nicholas Boys Smith, who heads the Office for Place in Gove's Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), also chairs the thinktank Create Streets, which has released a report calling for more greening of cities.
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