Natural England, which is part of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), surveyed 1,150 adults and 502 children between the ages of seven and 11 about outdoor play.
Almost two-thirds of children said that they played indoors more than any other place, in contrast to the adults, of whom 42 per cent said they had played outdoors in local streets when they were children.
The survey also found that 81 per cent of children wanted more freedom to play outdoors. Of the adults - who were divided into a 'grandparents generation', aged 51 or above, and a parents generation, who were aged 50 or under - 94 per cent of the grandparents generation felt that they had more freedom to play outdoors when they were young, compared with 84 per cent of younger adults.
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