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Scotland's Greenspace Map – Open Space Mapping in Glasgow

• What we have
• How we’ve used it
• New Generation Mapping

SPP11 Objectives:

• protect and

enhance open space

• ensure a strategic

approach to open space … by requiring local authorities to undertake an open space audit and prepare an open space strategy for their area

Glasgow’s Open Space Audit:

• Undertaken between 2007 - 2009
• Largely desk based – google maps and other sources eg

housing land supply, council maintenance schedules

• Two people, both preparation and upkeep
• c50,000 individual polygons of open space identified - OS

Mastermap

• Open Spaces categorised on basis of PAN 65 typology, but

not private gardens

Policy ENV 1: Open Space Protection Protection accorded to the following categories

• f open space as identified on the Glasgow

Open Space Map

• 1. Public parks and gardens
• 2. Communal private gardens
• 3. Amenity space
• 4. Playspace for children and teenagers
• 5. Sports areas
• 6. Allotments
• 7. Green corridors
• 8. Natural/Semi-natural greenspace
• 9. Other functional greenspaces
• 10. Civic space

Policy CDP 6: Green Belt & Green Network The Council will support the retention, as open space, of the categories of

• pen space specified and shown on

Figure 13 (and identified on the Council’s Open Space Map)

But also …

• Standards for the provision of
• pen space in new development

will be … included in Supplementary Guidance

• The contributions which may be

sought from new development will reflect any requirements based on application of quality, quantity and accessibility standards, and identified local circumstances …

Supplementary Guidance SG6: Green Belt and Green Network

• Sets out open space standards for the quality and quantity of open

space required to support new development and for accessibility to it

• Open Space Map used to both develop the standards and to guide

their implementation – “Audit information will form the basis of an assessment of current and future needs” (PAN 65)

PAN 65: Standards should contain three elements:

• quality – a benchmark against which quality can be measured;
• accessibility – at its simplest, distance thresholds for particular

types of open space. Planning authorities may prefer to develop accessibility standards which take account of barriers to access (such as busy roads) and of actual travel distances rather than straight-line distance; and

• quantity – an amount of space per house unit or head of

population

• Pan 65 - Different types of open space require to be considered

separately.

• SG6 differentiates between demand-led open spaces and publicly

usable open spaces

• Standards developed for the publicly usable spaces:

• 2 categories of publicly usable open space most likely to meet

quality standard (Public Parks & Gardens and Amenity Res >0.3 ha)

• Points of access to these open spaces
• Use of Network Analyst tool, adapted for use by pedestrians
• Considering access to 2 key categories at different walking

thresholds – taking account of coverage, walkability, and resources for maintenance and enhancement

• Quality scores recorded in GIS – allows comparison of a measure
• f relative quality

Accessibility Standard

• How much space should there be per head of population?
• Differentiates between Inner (higher residential densities) and

Outer (lower residential densities) Urban Areas

• Use of Open space mapping to identify the quantities of publicly

usable open space in the IUA (4 areas) and the OUA (10 areas)

• Consideration taken of particularly high levels of open space per

head in any of these areas that might be attributable to eg:  historic concentrations of open space  concentrations of vacant/derelict land and relatively low population densities Quantity Standard

• Identified local circumstances
• Uses these analyses of access to, and quality and quantity of, open

space in 14 areas to highlight Open Space/Green Network issues and opportunities

• Informs development of Strategic Development Frameworks for

the City and use of SG6

• First Stage in 2 stage process to identify a Green Network that

addresses issues of open space access, quality and quantity, but reflects other considerations, such as biodiversity, active travel, water management, placemaking and community views to identify an optimum Green Network “masterplan” for the area Local Context Analyses

• Stage 2 Green Network masterplan to be informed by funding

from the EU’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

• “Connecting Nature” is a partnership of 29 organisations from 16

countries

• Focusses on 11 cities promoting large scale implementation of

nature–based solutions in urban settings

• Funding over a five year period
• New staff

Local Context Analyses

Next Generation Map Potential benefits  Existing map is out-of-date/inaccurate in places  Provides a consistent and regular approach to update  Potentially provides an independent perspective However X It doesn’t use PAN 65 categorisation X It doesn’t cover all categories we wish to protect eg civic space X It identifies some development sites as open space X It includes things like car parks as open space X In summary – lacks understanding of the local context