www.wmca.org.uk\/LNRS<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n Councillor Simon Phipps, cabinet member for economy and infrastructure, said: “While expert knowledge has been critical in developing the LNRS, it is equally important to understand the views of people who live and work in the region.\n<\/p>\n
\n “That includes people in our borough, and I\u2019d really like as many people as possible to take part in this consultation.”\n<\/p>\n
\n He highlighted the significance of green spaces, citing a previous WMCA survey where nearly two-thirds of respondents said green spaces were important.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “As such, we have to protect them at all costs.\n<\/p>\n
\n “This strategy will help preserve our beauty spots for future generations to enjoy and protect habitats so wildlife can continue to flourish and thrive.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The blueprint aims to improve and safeguard nature and green spaces across the West Midlands. The public consultation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-413582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115180984587369848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}