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Integrating Surface Water Management Planning & Green - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Integrating Surface Water Management Planning & Green - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Integrating Surface Water Management Planning & Green Infrastructure to help deliver multiple benefits in Glasgow Gaye McKay & Laura MacDonald Glasgow City Council Development and Regeneration Services Introduction Development and
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Introduction
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City Deal
Benefitting People Deliver £2.2 billion in additional Gross Value Added per annum Benefitting Communities 29,000 jobs Benefitting Businesses Support over 5,500 people into sustained work. Lever in an estimated £3.3 billion of private sector investment
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SWMPs in Glasgow:
Hillington/Cardonald Fullarton Avenue High Knightswood/ Netherton Eastern Springburn Darnley Mains Drumchapel Cardowan/Cockenzie Street Overwood Drive/Aikenhead Road Kings Park Croftfoot Garrowhill Glasgow City Centre
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Who? What? Why?
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The strategic aims of green infrastructure
To improve the quality, accessibility and quantity of green infrastructure in Scotland’s towns and cities To provide increased and better
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people to improve their health and well- being; To address inequality by creating new green space, and improve existing sites for communities in areas of multiple deprivation and/or for communities living close to vacant and derelict land
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Masterplanning at a Catchment Scale
- Best Value for Money
- What can be achieved?
- Where can funding be found?
- Limitless opportunities
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Collaboration & Funding
Working with Development Control and applying guidance Working with Strategic Planners Working with Parks Working with Ecologists Working with Roads Revenue & Capital Funding
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Halfway Community Park (Moss Heights) Cardonald
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Halfway Community Park
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Cranhill Park
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Community Consultation
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Discussion
- Based upon you own experiences, what do you consider the
potential barriers to the introduction of blue/green infrastructure and how can these obstacles be overcome?
- In the examples provided Glasgow City Council collaborated with
numerous organisations to help deliver multiple benefits. What do consider are the advantages of this approach? How can we encourage others to adopt a similar approach?
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