Parks are much smaller in modern housing developments and the decline is making people feel cut off from nature and threatening their mental health
Developers have cut the amount of green space to cram in more homes, causing the average size of the nearest park for those built in the last decade to fall by 30 per cent since the 1990s and by 41 per cent since the 1930s.
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