This document discusses green infrastructure (GI), highlighting its importance in land use planning by emphasizing the essential services provided by natural systems and promoting green space as a valuable asset. It describes key GI concepts like multifunctionality, connectivity, and strategic vision/local delivery. The document also outlines numerous opportunities provided by GI and potential GI land assets. Finally, it discusses effective GI delivery through vision, policy, partnership working, funding, and long-term management.

1. Green Infrastructure:
getting value
from your landscape
Ian Phillips MRTPI, CMLI
CABE Space enabler

2. Green Infrastructure
- principles
• Highlights the importance
of the natural environment
in land use planning
• Emphasises essential
services provided by
natural systems
• Promotes green space as a
valuable asset

3. GI concepts
• Multi-functionality
– Competing pressures – making best
use of scarce land resources
• Connectivity
– Making the whole network more
than the sum of its parts
• Strategic vision and local
delivery
– Partnership working to add tangible
value + operational effectiveness +
public benefit

4. Multifunctional space

5. GI - opportunities
• GI addresses diverse
agendas:
– Climate change
– Energy efficiency and resources
– Recreation & leisure
– Healthy communities
– Alternative transportation routes
– Place making, character &
distinctiveness
– Biodiversity
– Flood risk attenuation
– Water resource management
– Waste management
– Economic development esp.
tourism
– Food production
– Other resource production

6. Connectivity: sub region to neighbourhood

7. Potential GI land assets
• Can include private, public and
restricted open space:
– residential gardens
– footpaths, bridleways and cycleways
– streets (e.g. trees) and buildings
(e.g. green roofs)
– civic spaces
– public parks and gardens
– playing fields and sports pitches
– business parks, car parks
– blue space (e.g. waterways, coast)
and SUDS
– allotments / leisure / market
gardens
– open countryside
– country parks / estates
– nature reserves
– agriculture / forestry / MoD land

8. Changing climates – changing needs
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Source: Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change in Urban Environments
(ASCCUE), University of Manchester

10. Towards a Natural Health Service?
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• 60,000 people - ie: 18% of
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• 1 in 3 10-11 yr old are
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12% of the population –
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depression
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• Older people have greater
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care needs and those are
expected to increase
Source: Bournemouth and Poole PCT/NHS
2009-2013 Strategic Plan

11. Capitalising on world-class landscapes

12. Meeting
community needs
• Urban South Hampshire
(PUSH)
Needs are greatest within the
urban areas - based on
deprivation, age, risk of adverse
environmental quality, etc
Potential for delivering community
needs is more diffuse – widespread
opportunity for GI to deliver
multiple functions

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14. Exploiting local resources

15. GI strategy
• An effective GI strategy
needs to:
– operate at the relevant scale
/ level:
• Local / neighbourhood
• Town / city / district
• Sub-regional, regional, national
– incorporate cross-cutting
policies
– potentially cross political and
administrative boundaries
– be sufficiently robust and
flexible to respond to political
change

16. SE Dorset opportunity map

17. Emscher Landscape Park,
North Ruhr, Germany

18. GI delivery
• Effective delivery requires:
– Vision and leadership
– Sound policy base
– Multi-agency inputs and multi-
disciplinary support
– Co-ordinated planning, design
and management
– Funding and resources for
acquisition, design,
implementation AND LONG-
TERM MANAGEMENT

19. Useful references
• Landscape
Institute
• CABE Space
• Natural England
• TCPA