Green Infrastructure
The purpose of the study is to consider green infrastructure in the Region and identify evidence base needs at a strategic level. The aim of this research is to contribute to the development of a strategic approach to Green Infrastructure by establishing evidence base requirements, thereby ensuring that Green Infrastructure has a pro-active influence upon decisions regarding future locations for growth and development. The development of an evidence base will also have great potential to inform the type and nature of development wherever it happens to be located.
The need for the study has emerged from the Housing Green Paper 2007. This identifies the need for a review of the Regional Spatial Strategy. In December 2007 the Regional Planning Board decided to focus the review work on three growth themes - scale, location and infrastructure. This latter theme of infrastructure includes critical, green and social infrastructure.
ECOTEC Research and Consulting Limited were appointed by the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Assembly in January 2008 to undertake the development of an evidence base for Green Infrastructure in the Yorkshire and Humber Region. This work is now being taken forward by LGYH. The study report is available to download below.
The following table, based on the Planning Advisory Service guidance, shows the progress on Green Infrastructure gathering information in support of the IRS evidence base.
For further information please contact Will Kemp and Ruth Hardingham:
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