Transcript Slide 1

Welcome
Organised by
Professor John Handley
Director
Centre for Urban and Regional Ecology,
University of Manchester
Organised by
Jon Lovell
Sustainable Development Manager
North West Regional Assembly
Organised by
Green and pleasant land?
Jon Lovell - NWRA
GI for a sustainable region
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A setting for economic investment
Increasing property and land values
Reinforce sense of place, attract and retain people
A focus for social inclusion
Protect and connect natural systems
Reverse habitat fragmentation and increase biodiversity
Enhance built heritage
Provide the essential contact between people and nature
Environmental Economy
Landscape and natural environment services - £365m
Environmental tourism - £770m
Land based industries - £215m
£1.35bn
Natural Economy Northwest
…building a credible brand for the region
Regional Spatial Strategy
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Purpose (statutory)
Policy EM3 – plans, strategies proposals and schemes should…
 Overcome GI deficits
 Integrate GI into new development
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Lets be clear about Regional Parks
Consultation and EiP
North West Green Infrastructure Guide
Hearts and minds
Articulating the concept
Putting policy into practice
Celebration of regional achievements
Process and outcomes
Capturing intelligence – today and beyond
Wide regional awareness and input
Local authority and sub-regional responses
A healthy life support system for the region – a network of natural
environmental components and greenspaces that lies within and between the
North West’s cities, towns and villages which provides multiple social,
economic and environmental benefits.
Thank you
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Colin Maddison
Regional Director
The Countryside Agency
Organised by
working towards Natural England
for people places and nature
Going Natural
Green Infrastructure and
the development of Natural England in
the NW
Purpose of this presentation.
• A brief update on the development of Natural
England.
• An overview of the contribution of the
Countryside Agency’s programme for the
Countryside in and Around Towns to
developing the Green Infrastructure agenda in
the NW over the last 18 months.
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for people places and nature
Natural England
• Established by the Natural Environment and
Rural Communities Act 2006.
• Bringing together into one new Non
Departmental Public Body the existing –
• English Nature.
• Most of the Rural Development Service.
• The Landscape, Access and Recreation
Division of the Countryside Agency.
• Will become fully operational 2nd October 2006.
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for people places and nature
Natural England Purpose
• Given by the NERC Act • To ensure that the natural environment is
conserved, enhanced, and managed for the
benefit of present and future generations,
thereby contributing to sustainable
development.
• Urban – Rural – Coastal – Marine.
working towards Natural England
for people places and nature
Structure
• Five Directorates –
• Operations (including regions)
• External Affairs.
• Strategy and Performance.
• Science, Evidence and Policy.
• Finance and corporate services.
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for people places and nature
Regions.
• Regional structures will include –
• Advocacy and Partnerships Team.
• Area Teams.
• Business Services Team.
• Detail yet to be agreed.
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for people places and nature
Natural England – Overall Aim
• Natural England will conserve and enhance the
natural environment for its intrinsic value, the
wellbeing and enjoyment of people and the
economic prosperity it can bring.
• To achieve this Natural England has defined
four strategic outcomes.
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for people places and nature
1. A Healthy Natural Environment.
• Conserving and enhancing landscape,
biodiversity, geology, natural resources and
heritage.
• Conservation, recovery and enhancement of
the marine environment.
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for people places and nature
2. Enjoyment of the natural
environment.
• Increasing diversity and frequency of people
enjoying the natural environment.
• Increasing understanding of and action for the
natural environment.
• Improving places to enjoy the natural
environment.
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3. Sustainable use of the natural
environment.
• Improving the quality of land and sea management.
• Environmentally sustainable faming, fishing and
forestry.
• Influencing markets and supply chains to adopt more
sustainable practices.
• Securing commitment to natural environmental goals in
policies and strategies.
• Increase investment in environmental enhancement.
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4. A secure environmental future.
• Engaging in debate about what our future
natural environment should be like.
• Climate change adaptation activities.
• Identification of future threats to the natural
environment – horizon scanning.
• Science and evidence activities.
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for people places and nature
Where are we now?
• Legacy activity – our starting point.
• New territory – a big remit, bigger than the
existing three, especially urban and marine.
• Strategic Directions Document 2006 – 2009
about to be issued – a framework for how
Natural England will develop.
• Regional plans under development.
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Natural England and Green
Infrastructure.
• Not yet decided on a position.
• Natural England Board to discuss this month.
• Growing interest in the Green Infrastructure
approach as a means of helping to deliver
sustainable development.
• Close affinity with Natural England’s purpose.
• Watch this space!
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Legacy work.
• Countryside Agency support for developing the Green
Infrastructure agenda in the NW over the last 2 years
through the Countryside in and Around Towns
Programme.
• Successor to Community Forests, Regeneration
though Environmental ACTion programme.
• Developed a Vision for connecting town and country in
the pursuit of sustainable development with
Groundwork UK – issued 2005.
working towards Natural England
for people places and nature
The Vision.
• Seeks the development of multifunctional urban
fringe and greenspaces.
• Set out 10 key functions that represent the
spectrum of potential benefits that can be
derived from the urban fringe countryside and
greenspace.
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for people places and nature
A Programme in Transition
• NW CIAT Publication –
• Celebrate what the programme has been doing
over the last 5 to 6 years.
• Disseminate some of the good practice more
widely.
• Say thank you to those who have been
involved.
• Set the scene for this area of work going into
Natural England.
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for people places and nature
Focus of Recent activity.
• Supporting the development of networks and
structures to develop the Green Infrastructure
agenda in the NW.
• Policy development and advocacy.
• Project based development of a Green
Infrastructure Planning Approach – St Helens
Project.
working towards Natural England
for people places and nature
Why do green infrastructure planning?
• Green infrastructure planning seeks to answer
one overall question.
• How can the natural environment be
conserved, improved and sustainably utilised to
contribute to the delivery of regional social,
economic and environmental objectives.
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Green Infrastructure Approach is ….
• A means of integrating social, economic and
environmental agendas.
• A means of promoting sustainable
development.
• An evidence based approach to designing
intervention in the natural environmental
system.
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What are the basic steps?
The approach is about answering five key
questions –
• What green infrastructure is there?
• What functions does it perform and what could
it do?
• Where does it need to be maintained?
• How does it need to change?
• What needs to be done to secure change?
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Green Infrastructure in the NW.
• An agenda that has developed rapidly – urban
focus?
• RSS Policy seeks to pave the way for a broadly
agreed approach to Green Infrastructure
Planning that draws in all related sectors.
• The NW Guide is an opportunity to further
shape the way ahead.
• It is still a developing approach – no one best
way.
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What support is already there?
• There is –
• A NW Green Infrastructure Unit.
• A NW Green Infrastructure Think Tank.
• A NW Green Infrastructure website.
• www.greeninfrastructurenw.co.uk
• A NW Framework of policy support for Green
Infrastructure – RES, RRDF, RSS.
• Lots of activity out there – across the region.
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But what support is needed?
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• How should the region develop its Green
Infrastructure agenda? Guide consultation.
• What support will be needed to aid this?
Workshop 3.
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The statutory nice view to end with!
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for people places and nature
Brenda Fullard
Senior Public Health Specialist
Government Office for the North West
Organised by
Health and Spatial Planning
Brenda Fullard
Government Office for the North
West
Green-space and mental health:
importance of spatial planning
• reduction of stress and restoration of attention
fatigue
• increased independence, locus of control and
opportunities to succeed in children
– Creative play; access to the natural world
• personal growth of adults/enhancing quality of
life
• reduction in noise pollution
• encouragement and promotion of social
cohesion and social capital
– opportunities for social interaction, leisure activities
and local empowerment
Green-space and physical health:
importance of spatial planning
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improvement in air quality
promoting (more) physical activity
reducing obesity
increase in locally grown foods – ‘five a day’
healthy development of children
reducing health inequalities - accessibility to
green spaces for all
– positive association between health and green space
more predominant among disadvantaged socioeconomic groups
National Health Policy
Department of Health White Paper
Choosing Health: Making healthier
choices easier. 2005
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Create an Environment for Heathier Lifestyles
Extend concern for health to all sectors of society
Integrate health into all aspects of regional policy
Small Change, Big Difference
 Campaign educating people on the long term health benefits of
making small changes in their day to day lives
Other Reports: Wanless, Acheson, Tackling Health Inequalities
Regional Spatial Strategy
• Reducing health inequalities
 Creating an environment supportive of good
health
 Equitable access to good quality services
 Reference to health in all aspects of strategy
Further examination of implications of changing demography and
social geography of region
 Ageing
 Demographic trends in particular localities
 Ethnic composition
HIA and the Planning Process
Possibilities to integrate HIA into the spatial
planning process
• Incorporate HIA into Environmental Impact
Assessment (EIA)
• Incorporate appropriate health objectives into
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
• Incorporate appropriate health objectives into
Sustainability Appraisal (SA)
• Develop policy and tools to identify when an
independent HIA needs to be undertaken
Other Issues
Need for Health Impact Assessment of
local spatial plans
• Importance of partnerships – health care
and Local Authorities, local community
groups and private sector
• Better collaborative working, knowledge
and understanding between health and
spatial planners
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Mapping and the North West Public
Health Observatory
• Local authority health profiles
– health of people in each local authority
updated annually
– Thirty indicators including air quality, road
injuries and deaths , obesity levels
– demonstrate where action can be taken to
improve people’s health and reduce health
inequalities
www.communityhealthprofiles.info/index.php
North West Public Health Observatory
‘Where Wealth means Health’
Compared to the residents of the wealthiest areas in the
region (top 20%), those living in the poorest 20% are:
– Three times more likely to be admitted to hospital for mental
health conditions
– Five times more likely to suffer alcohol related conditions
requiring hospital admission
– More than twice as likely to suffer from heart conditions or
asthma
– Over two times more likely to die from either smoking or alcohol
related conditions.
• www.nwpho.org.uk/documents
References
• National Institute for Mental Health in
England. Making it Possible: Improving
mental health and wellbeing in England.
CSIP October 2005
• National Heart Forum. Lightening the
Load: tackling overweight and obesity.
2006
• Department of Health. Choosing Health:
Making healthier choices easier. 2005
Brenda Fullard
Public Health Team
Government Office for the North West
City Tower
Manchester
[email protected]
www.nwph.net
Francis Hesketh
Partner
TEP
Organised by
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Green Infrastructure
A Private Sector Perspective
Francis Hesketh
Partner
TEP
July 10th 2006
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
1. Scope (and limits) of development-led GI Investment
2. GI, Land Values, Abnormals and Return on Capital
3. Do developers view GI as a positive thing?
4. Scope for Negotiating Better GI thro’ development
5. Making GI straightforward for developers
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Northwest
80% Rural
20% Urban
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Northwest
<2% switch
From Rural
to Urban over
25 year period
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
25 year transformation
of land into urban uses
– as a % of total land
cover
NB Map precedes Growth Area
agenda, but unlikely to
significantly change % for NW
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Zone of greatest change is 2%
greenfield, 2-3% urban
Northwest
70%+ re-use of
urban land for
development
Will include
dev of urban
open spaces,
DUN land –
“densification”
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Northwest
• Densification,
• Population uplift
• Mobility &
Accessibility
aspirations
• Ageing
Demographics
Will place
pressures on
urban and
rural
greenspaces
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Liv & Mcr City
Regions
45% urban (by
2016)
Although rate
of
development >
NW; still
relatively small
total land
affected
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
1. Rate of English residential development was
6,000ha per annum in early 1990’s, dropping back to
4,800ha/yr in early 2000’s.
2. Assume faster development rates of 7,000ha per
annum in future (Growth Areas etc)
3. Assume ca 25% of each development is open space
(planned POS, undevelopable areas etc – new GI
directly associated with development will be ca
1800ha
4. If s106 type contributions could average £50K/ha
for GI; this might generate £350m per annum for
GI in the wider area around developments
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Development can be a significant but localised driver of
landscape change
Market forces give significant uplift in land values – but
developers face an increasing number of “EO costs”.
Brownfield “de-contamination” (not always merited?)
Infrastructure (roads, schools, traffic measures, neighbourhood facilities)
Affordable Housing %ages rising
Structural Open space (Green Infrastructure)
Green Travel Plans
Sustainable / Renewable Construction methods
Disability Provision
Miscellaneous site-specific matters e.g. art, security, covenants
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Land Value, Return on Capital & Land Options
Land Values are often the biggest items on development companies
Assets register (the books).
Generally its in the interests of developers to keep the “book value”
of land high, so they will try to minimise “abnormals”.
Land is usually held on “option” with landowner, with the option
exercised on grant of planning permission – some “abnormals” can
usually be deducted from purchase price – but landowners will resist
reductions
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Land Value, Return on Capital & Land Options
Developers are measured by “Return on Capital” – thus it is in
developers interests to have a high number of “plots” on the books
and to bring forward plots to construction as quickly as possible – a
slow progress on plots reduces return on capital.
Having to make unplanned reductions in plot numbers to
accommodate GI will be particularly tough – places developer in
difficult position with landowner – NB nature of contracts between
owners and developers
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Developers Views of Green Infrastructure
Developers vary greatly – but major developers have a
broadly positive view;
Positives
• Developers are human – tend to want to leave behind a good
environment
• GI improves saleability – hence return on capital
• GI helps with other standards that are coming into force – BREEAM etc
• GI demonstrates corporate responsibility – important when tendering
for major surplus public sector land – e.g. EP Hospital sites
• Good PR / Feelgood factor
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Developers Views of Green Infrastructure
Negatives
• Scepticism over long-term management by Local Authorities
• GI is often one of many competing demands on land value – sometimes
the need is not apparent – GI mustn’t be seen as a wish list by a Local
authority to get ££ for something it should be doing anyway
• Inconsistent or incoherent application of GI standards by Local
Authorities
• GI that doesn’t have a “human” aspect is less attractive to developers as
incoming residents may not appreciate the value of it – e.g. distant
greenspaces, publicly-inaccessible nature reserves.
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Green Infrastructure Strategies
Important for Local Authorities to communicate the importance and
functions of GI to developers
Important for a site or neighbourhood-specific strategy to be articulated
• Conservation of existing assets that may be put under increased pressure
from the development – e.g. wildlife areas, sports areas, strategic spaces
• Management of assets to make them attractive to new residents – e.g.
wardening of nature areas, Cressington Heath woodland / heathland
• Restoration of assets that may have become disused or neglected but will
be needed e.g. Stamford Brook – restoration of Sinderland Brook
• Creation of new GI both for new and existing residents
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Growth &
Change Zones
Settled Zones
(protect
functions)
Create &
Extend
Settled Zones
(Functional
Deficit)
GI
Conserve
& Manage
Growth &
Change Zones
Settled Zones
(in Deficit)
Regenerate
& Enhance
Strategies
Growth &
Change Zones
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Growth &
Change Zones
Settled Zones
(protect
functions)
Create &
Extend
Settled Zones
(Functional
Deficit)
GI
Conserve
& Manage
Growth &
Change Zones
Settled Zones
(in Deficit)
Regenerate
& Enhance
Strategies
Growth &
Change Zones
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Scope for Negotiating Green Infrastructure
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Planning Negotiations can deliver more / better GI than at
present
S106 obligations are now standard practice on most sites, esp
major schemes – but more could occur
In desirable areas, land values can rise to £2m per acre for
residential development (commercial / industrial lower - £500K
- £800K per acre)
NB Undesirable areas with many abnormals won’t sustain
these kind of land values
Need for linkage of the GI being secured by the s106 to the
impact of the development – requires good policy justification if
monies are directed to projects a long way from site.
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Scope for Negotiating Green Infrastructure
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Ambivalence by developers about simply putting money into a
general s106 pot which may not benefit the site itself
Need to demonstrate a relationship of the GI to the new
residents (e.g. Longsight urban cricket facility)
Need for clearly-articulated GI policy / standards / guidance
Human relationships important in negotiating – major
developers will respond to a well-put case for GI investment
Planning Gain Supplement – fear that it will reduce scope for
site-specific uplift in GI if money ends up being spent on Govt
schemes / LA’s pet projects
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Making it Easier for Developers to Deliver GI
Developers suffering “Initiative Overload”
• EcoHomes / BREEAM
• Sustainable Construction
• Renewables obligations / Carbon Loads
• Secured by Design
• Disability Discrimination Act
• Local Plan / Framework standards / SPGs
• Green Travel Plans
• Local Labour obligations
Gap between aspiration and reality affects deliverability
e.g. Oldham 10% renewable obligation
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Making it Easier for Developers to Deliver GI
Danger of GI being too vague a term
Need for clearly articulated expectations on what GI is required from
individual developments;
Within site
Within neighbourhood
Within Borough / “catchment”
Within sub-region?
BUT – need for flexibility in interpretation how local GI need can best be
met - one size fits all policies have limitations (x trees per house, x ha
open space per 50 dwellings)
Bricks & Green Mortar – Developers’ Perspectives
Making it Easier for Developers to Deliver GI
Benefits of Delivery Vehicles for GI, especially off-site contributions
(Community Forest Trusts, Wildlife Trusts, Parish Councils, Local
Authority Teams)
Need to build developer confidence and provide positive feedback
and publicity arising from off-site contributions.
“Milton Keynes Roof Tax” approach may work on major
development schemes with uncomplicated landowning structure
– need to investigate if transferable to smaller / fragmented
developments
Dr Alan Barber
Simon Research Fellow
University of Manchester
Organised by
Green Infrastructure in NW
GI – where quality
brings value
Alan Barber
[email protected]
CABE Space
planning, design, management and
maintenance of urban parks, public
places and greenspace networks
• Advising and supporting local & public
authorities
• Promoting high quality standards and best
practice
• Undertaking and diseminating research
• Campaigns and Advocacy
• Developing skills
Green Infrastructure
- where quality brings value
“CABE space is really influencing the whole
of CABE’s agenda”
“CABE is developing more into an urban
agency”
Richard Simmons, Chief Executive, CABE
Horticulture Week 8 June 2006
“Managing
for
biodiversity in parks
and green spaces
means working to
improve the
ecological qualities of
our towns and cities
and to maximise the
opportunities for
people to experience
nature close to hand.”
Green Infrastructure
- where quality brings value
“We also need to promote the idea of the
ecologically sensitive city in which humans
recognise that they cohabit with nature. Trees,
woodland and other open space are all
important in fostering biodiversity, in enhancing
human health and well-being, and in reducing
noise and pollution”
Towards an Urban Renaissance’ Report of the Urban Task
Force 1999
Green Infrastructure
- where quality brings value
Green Infrastructure:
• embraces all types of green spaces as a single
managed entity
• Implies an overview of all green spaces
regardless of ownership
• Prompts useful parallels with transport, drainage
and other infrastructure
• Provides a structural dimension to tree cover
and surface water bodies
• Demands a comprehensive skills base
• Helps question the rationale of poor spaces
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Green Infrastructure
- where quality brings value
• The land is cheap; it is the benefits which
add value - beyond its borders!
• GI benefits are usually grouped under
economic, social and environmental
• Ultimately all GI benefits contribute to the
economy
• Most GI benefits rise with quality
• Where quality is low, more investment will
raise quality to provide better value
Promenade Plantee, Paris
Lombard Street, San Francisco
S 106 Amenity Area, Nailsea
Gainsborough Square, Bristol
Square du Temple, Paris
Duck Pond, North Yorkshire
Alexandra Park, Oldham
Manchester City FC, Carrington Lane
Jubilee Park, Middleton
PPS:15 Planning & Flood Prevention
8.34 …incorporating existing watercourses into the
open space requirements for new residential
development will be preferred to locating them to
the rear of properties or culverting them. Where it
is necessary to achieve a quality design solution to
a development problem the diversion of a
watercourse will be acceptable on planning
grounds where it keeps the watercourse open and
it is demonstrated that it will not adversely affect the
drainage of the area.
PPG:17 Open Space, Sport & Recreation
• Needs Assessment
• Audit of Facilities
• Set Local Standards
for:
• Quantity
• Quality
• Accessibility
But what about Diversity?
Queens Drive, Liverpool
Apex House, Reading
Multifunctionality - CLERE Model
As an agent for
Community development
and education
As Landscape to be
conserved
As an Ecosystem
providing urban services
As a Recreational
resource for health and
well-being
As a contributor to the
local Economy
www.green-space.org.uk/library/greenfuture.htm
Bushy Park, London
Workshops
1. Functionality mapping, The Barn
2. Quality greenspace and design, Stables 1
3. Promoting multifunctional benefits, Stables 2
4. Planning the GI agenda, Stables 3
Organised by
Tom Ferguson
Development Plans Manager
St Helens Council
Organised by
Green Infrastructure – A Local
Authority Perspective
St Helens
Tom Ferguson, Development Plans Manager
St Helens Council
www.visitsthelens.gov.uk
INTRODUCTION
• Economic development, planning and the
environment in St Helens.
• Countryside In and Around Towns (CIAT) –
St Helens Pilot Study.
• Observations on green infrastructure from this local
perspective.
www.visitsthelens.gov.uk
ST HELENS CONTEXT
• 50 % Borough area is countryside / Urban Fringe / CIAT
/ Greenbelt.
• Objective 1 Area.
• 36th most deprived authority in England.
• Community Plan aim “to make St Helens a modern,
distinctive, economically prosperous and vibrant
borough.
www.visitsthelens.gov.uk
ST HELENS CONTEXT
(continued)
• Importance of economic regeneration.
• First Economic Strategy in 1986 – need for strategic
landscape review.
• Groundwork Trust and Wasteland to Woodland –
over 300 Ha of derelict land transferred.
• New Landscape – issue is how best to use this new
resource.
www.visitsthelens.gov.uk
CITY GROWTH STRATEGY
• Latest Economic Strategy published in 2003.
• Pilot project (1 of 4 areas in England).
• Private sector led partnership.
• Wealth creation from within.
• Physical transformation – one of four themes.
• Town in the Forest.
www.visitsthelens.gov.uk
COUNTRYSIDE IN AND AROUND
TOWNS
• Countryside Agency Pilot Project.
• Development of GIS Database.
– To understand multifunctionality.
– Help to match need and opportunity.
• Landscape Character Assessment
www.visitsthelens.gov.uk
COUNTRYSIDE IN AND AROUND
TOWNS
(CONTINUED)
• Plethora of existing and evolving studies including
– Town in the Forest Woodland Strategy.
– Greenspace Strategy.
• Integration with LDF and LSP.
www.visitsthelens.gov.uk
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
• Spatial Planning.
• Regional Spatial Strategy Part of the Development
Plan.
• RSS Policy EM3.
• Action Plans.
• CIAT Project and St Helens approach.
www.visitsthelens.gov.uk
LOCAL STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
• Targeted four of the ten Countryside Agency
functions : –
 Regeneration
 Recreation
 Health
 Education
• Selective consultation included : -
 PCT (Planning / Health Liaison Group)
 Education Advisors Management Meeting
 Investment Action Group
www.visitsthelens.gov.uk
LOCAL STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
(Continued)
• Linked CIAT Project to City Growth Strategy and
Woodland Strategy.
 St Helens Forest.
• Presentation to LSP Board.
www.visitsthelens.gov.uk
FUTURE ACTIONS
• Continuation and extension of CIAT Steering Group to
include LSP representatives.
• Take forward recommendations of CIAT including
– St Helens Forest.
– School use of the database.
– Linking health agenda to greenspace.
• Build Green Infrastructure into LDF Core Strategy.
• Undertake study of Rural Landowners (Agricultural Economy)
using Local Enterprise Growth Initiative funding.
www.visitsthelens.gov.uk
OBSERVATIONS
• Evolving process.
• Comprehensive framework - can it unite doorstep
concerns of Local Area Agreement and Sub-Regional
Community Forest or Regional Parks?
• Opportunity of spatial expression through planning
system.
www.visitsthelens.gov.uk
OBSERVATIONS
• Importance of information and its maintenance.
• Link to existing agendas and priorities.
• Value of existing partnership arrangements in
particular Mersey Forest.
www.visitsthelens.gov.uk
Richard Tracey
Land Regeneration Manager
Northwest
Regional Development Agency
Organised by
Richard Tracey
Land Regeneration Manager
RES 2006
113.
Develop the economic
benefits of the region’s
natural economy
through better
alignment of
environmental activities
and economic gain:
……. and develop a strategy for
Green Infrastructure
Process…
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