GCV Green Network
Connecting Our Quality Spaces

The Green Network Partnership has established the Integrating Green Infrastructure Project and will provide “Design Studies” for 2 sites in the GCV area; Nitshill in the South West of Glasgow and Spango Valley near Greenock.  These sites were chosen after reviewing applications from various locations.

The Design Studies will consider how each site can be developed by focussing on the 5 key components of IGI, namely;

Water Management; Access Networks; Habitat Networks; Green & Open Space; Stewardship.

Inception meetings have been held for each site and data gathering and analysis is progressing.  It is expected that each Design Study will be published in spring 2012.  The intention is produce site specific details for each location, but with principles that may be taken and applied at any other appropriate location within and beyond the GCV area accordingly.

If you are aware of a development that may benefit from this approach, get in touch with our Integrating Green Infrastructure Development Officer by e-mailing

Neil.McLean@IRRI.org.uk or calling 0141 229 7746.

11 partners from 8 European countries visited Glasgow as part of the Sigma for Water (S4W) Project funded through the InterReg 4c Programme.  GCV Green Network Partnership co-hosted with IRRI the 2 workshop sessions together with site vists and related meetings for the UK element of the project.  Site visits included the "7 Lochs Wetland Park" and "J4M8 Ditribution Park" to showcase both opportunity for wetland park development and Integrating Green Infrastructure (IGI) respectively.

The overall objective of the S4W Project is to encourage all partners' ability to develop and enhance lakes and wetlands for climate change, both for water quality and flood mitigation capabilities.  All partners found the visit very interesting and useful and the Project overall has taken positive steps forward.

It’s a few days now since our  ‘Placemaking: Integrating Green Infrastructure’ seminar held in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

It is with great pleasure we’re able to announce that Neil McLean (currently SUDS Co-ordinator with SEPA) will be taking up our IGI Development Officer post from 4th April. Neil is taking early retirement from his current post at the end of this month and will bring a wealth of knowledge and experience in the integration of SUDS to the wider remit of IGI. Neil was the project leader of our four recently completed Design Studies and assisting to progress these studies toward delivery is a major task for him in his new post.