Green Infrastructure
About Green Infrastructure
Green Infrastructure (GI) is a strategically planned, delivered and managed network of multi-functional greenspaces, which can provide a healthy and rich environment.
When preparing local development documents, planning authorities are required by government guidance on planning for climate change to consider the contribution to be made from existing and new opportunities for open space and green infrastructure to urban cooling, sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), and conserving and enhancing biodiversity.
GI strategies are documents that provide visionary and strategic frameworks for integrated environmental planning to ensure delivery of green infrastructure provision and/or enhancement alongside development in areas where significant new growth and development is planned.
How The Landmark Practice can helpThe Landmark Practice offers its Green Infrastructure capabilities to local authorities, statutory agencies, NGOs and developers. We’ll help you to:
- Identify and maximise the potential of current GI (including assessment of existing resources and identification of deficiencies, GI integration into new development),
- Integrate GI into emerging planning policy
- Establish new GI strategies, from project based to sub-regional scales
The Landmark Practice is well placed to help local authorities implement their Green Infrastructure strategy.
Landmark has over 20 years experience in the environmental planning sector plus in-house ecological assessment and landscape architecture expertise. We have extensive experience of Green Infrastructure planning, design and implementation for a wide range of development and infrastructure schemes.
Our ServiceOur project experience, multi-disciplinary skills base and specialist knowledge combine to deliver a comprehensive service, tailored to the full range of green infrastructure project applications:
- Strategic data collation, audit and interpretation
- GIS mapping and analysis
- Stakeholder consultation
- Landscape Character Assessment
- GI resource mapping and functionality assessment
- Needs and opportunities assessment and GI intervention planning, delivering detailed action frameworks
- GI strategy production
Our environmental planners will be happy to discuss the services that we can provide, so please contact us for more details.