Green Infrastructure Standards Project

Tender description

This work will assist in delivering a further commitment in the 25YEP to support the Parks Action Group, set up by MHCLG, in its work to help England’s public parks and green spaces meet the needs of communities now and in the future. It will also assist Natural England in delivering its green infrastructure ambitions set out in its new Conservation Strategy 21, through its 3 themes: creating and enhancing resilient landscapes and seas, putting people at the heart of the environment and increasing the stock of natural capital: • Putting People at the Heart of the Environment: GI helps to deliver NE’s ambition to put ‘people at the heart of the environment’. Often close to where people live, GI connects people with nature, improving health and wellbeing and contributing to the beauty and prosperity of the places where they live, learn, work and visit. • Resilient landscapes and seas: Resilience to Climate Change: Re-connecting urban, urban-fringe, coastal and rural areas across multiple scales, contributes to building resilient landscapes and seas and enhances landscape character. GI can reduce the impacts of climate change on towns and cities, for example by providing more resilient water supply and natural flood risk solutions. • Growing Natural Capital: Growth and Prosperity: Delivering high quality, well designed and maintained GI will grow the natural capital of city-regions, rural-urban fringe (including Green Belts) and rural areas. Taking a GI approach can help manage pressures and improve the quality and performance of housing, industry, transport, energy, agriculture, and is essential for economic growth and prosperity.