Glasgow and Clyde Valley Green Network Partnership | Getting Involved

Tools for Practitioners

The GCV Green Network Partnership and other partners have been working on developing a set of tools and guidance materials.

These materials will to help you make decisions which will help bring about delivery of the GCV Green Network.

Tools & Guidance includes:

GCV Green Network Quality Guidance

The Greenspace Quality Guide is designed to assist with setting up a framework to undertake a qualitative audit. The Guide will also help you carry out site assessments to define the quality of local greenspace.

Integrated Habitats Network (IHN) Model

The IHN Model is a powerful tool for all land-use decision-makers, providing opportunities for planners, developers, land managers and their consultants to deliver positive habitat benefits associated with development.

Greenspace Mapping

The Greenspace Mapping project demonstrates how greenspace can be mapped using a combination of Aerial Photo Interpretation (API), local knowledge and conversion to a common set of open space typologies. The demonstration project uses East Dunbartonshire as an example of good practice but the model can be applied elsewhere.

GCV Green Network Planning Guidance

Under the new planning system the role of supplementary planning guidance will increase in importance. It is within this context the Partnership is seeking to produce non-statutory, supplementary guidance at regional and strategic level.

The Guidance will support those who are engaged in the planning system and assist them to identify opportunities to deliver the Green Network.

The Guidance will be in two parts:

Part 1 outlines proposed Green Network planning principles, and proposes how the planning system might deliver the Green Network.

Part 2 provides the spatial framework for planning. It is proposed that local authority specific supplementary Green Network guidance should be developed to support each of the emerging LDPs.