ABSTRACT
Living with Nature was a 3 year (2011–2014) funded partnership project to work with 24 public (social) housing communities across the City of Sheffield in the north of England. The aim was to improve the play value and biodiversity of underused, and sometimes forgotten, playgrounds and green spaces in these housing areas, and re-animate them for use by children, youth, and communities. The chapter highlights how the Living with Nature team, members of a partnership, collaborated to work with children, youth, and communities with the outcome of physical improvements to eight priority and some of the other sites. Rather than using more traditional approaches the team organized a series of events in schools and on sites to support children to use the community green spaces. On-site activities were also used to inform the redesign of the sites. Environmental and social legacies still exist more than 5 years after the end of the Living with Nature funding.
