GCV Green Network
Connecting Our Quality Spaces

The Gartloch Gartcosh Green Network Strategy provides a framework for the development of sustainable local communities throughout the growth corridor.

The Gartloch Gartcosh Green Network Strategy highlights opportunities to:

• Create green links helping to integrate existing and new communities

• Develop a ‘wetland park’ and realise its potential

• Conserve existing habitats and bring about environmental improvements limiting the impact of the new built environment

• Improve accessibility and encourage recreational use of space within and beyond the area

• Encourage the growth of social enterprises for training, volunteering and business development

• Educate through visitor facilities promoting the area’s ecological and cultural heritage

At the heart of the Green Network Strategy is a proposal to create a wetland park of national significance with links to a wider network of green spaces. The Wetland Park will enhance the area's biodiversity, generate new opportunities for leisure, recreation and tourism and establish the area as an attractive place to live and do business.

The Green Network Partnership is now working closely with the Gartcosh Gartloch Strategic Delivery Partnership to develop the Wetland Park, and a vision and masterplan for the Wetland Park is now being developed. In 2010 we teamed up with the International Resources and Recycling Institute to join the Sigma for Water project, a pan-European project investigating the development of new lakes and wetlands for climate change adaptation, and to improve water and environmental quality. The development of the Wetland Park vision and masterplan is one of two projects being taken forward through S4W.

For more detailed information download the full Gartloch Gartcosh Green Network Strategy from the right hand column.