More money spent on “green” infrastructure such as parks and allotments will lead to healthier and wealthier towns claim the UK’s Natural England and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). Reduced asthma rates for children, lower carbon emissions and a reduction in global warming are among the benefits that such an approach would bring. The two groups claim that money budgeted for road building over the next 5 years could provide 1,000 new parks, and that funds earmarked for widening the M25 could buy 3.2m street trees. Both organisations want the government to establish new funding priorities to take such considerations into account.