Sustaining Quality
The wide ranging social, health and environmental benefits high quality greenspace brings have been increasingly recognised in recent years at national, regional and local level. However, this recognition is set against a general reduction in investment in greenspace which has resulted in a decline in quality in many places.
Local authorities and other land owners are now looking for new ways in which to fund and manage their open spaces, often within very tight financial constraints. While it is often possible to source capital expenditure to create or enhance open space it is more difficult to resource the long-term management of that space to maintain its quality and realise its potential benefits.
Scottish Government policy now asks local authorities to develop an Open Space Strategy which includes an assessment of the quantity and quality of open space within and adjacent to urban areas. A benchmark therefore exists to measure progress. What is missing are the means to create, enhance and maintain high quality over a long timescale.
The Green Network study examines and proposes management systems and financial approaches which will support the maintenance of high quality open space over the long-term.
Six case study sites - four of which will be in the Glasgow & Clyde Valley (GCV) region - will be investigated with suitable long-term funding and management models demonstrated.
It is hoped the study will encourage greenspace managers to consider alternative funding and management models which help to secure a high quality contribution to the GCV Green Network.
Local authorities and other land owners are now looking for new ways in which to fund and manage their open spaces, often within very tight financial constraints. While it is often possible to source capital expenditure to create or enhance open space it is more difficult to resource the long-term management of that space to maintain its quality and realise its potential benefits.
Scottish Government policy now asks local authorities to develop an Open Space Strategy which includes an assessment of the quantity and quality of open space within and adjacent to urban areas. A benchmark therefore exists to measure progress. What is missing are the means to create, enhance and maintain high quality over a long timescale.
The Green Network study examines and proposes management systems and financial approaches which will support the maintenance of high quality open space over the long-term.
Six case study sites - four of which will be in the Glasgow & Clyde Valley (GCV) region - will be investigated with suitable long-term funding and management models demonstrated.
It is hoped the study will encourage greenspace managers to consider alternative funding and management models which help to secure a high quality contribution to the GCV Green Network.
Planning Tools Overview
- Planning Guidance
- Greenspace Quality Guidance
- Greenspace Mapping (EDC)
- Development Design Code
- Sustaining Quality
Project Partners / Links
Project Contacts
- GCVGNP Development Officert: 0141 229 7749
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