a Public Benefit Mapping Project - Green Infrastructure North West

5.0PUBLIC BENEFIT MAPS –THE EVIDENCE BASEMAP 3: POPULATION AGE STRUCTUREGreen Infrastructure can provide a range of inspiring outdoor venues for sport, recreation, leisure and play - promoting positivelife experiences, exercise, education, tranquillity, relaxation, social interaction and connection with the natural environment.National and local strategies recognise these have a high impact upon the development and well-being of young and elderlypeople, yet these groups often have the lowest degree of mobility to access quality green environments. In areas where a highproportion of the population belongs to either of these age groups the provision of quality ‘doorstep greens’ is important. Whereboth young and elderly people constitute a large proportion of the population there may be further benefits from socialinteraction and community cohesion. Urban fringe areas appear to hold the greatest concentrations of these target age groups.17