Impact
Impact Case Study REF2021 - 04 08 `23
Government Consultations
Planning for the future DRAFT Response - 11 08 `20
Professional & Practice Publications
A planning policy assessment method for New Zealand based on ecosystem services - 04 08 `23
Essex Green Infrastructure Standards Technical Guidance - 04 08 `23
Improving Strategic Planning for Nature Conservation - 04 08 `23
Green Blue Infrastructure Impacts on Health and Wellbeing A Rapid Evidence Assessment - 04 08 `23
Essex GI Standards Consultation Report - 22 02 `22
Building with Nature Standards Framework - 22 02 `22
Sheffield GIPPAT Assessment - 17 02 `22
Maldon LDP GIPPAT Assessment - 17 02 `22
GI Policies in Central Scotland; assessment - 14 02 `22
Delivering Better Water Management Through the Planning System - 14 02 `22
Assessment of the NPPF - 14 02 `22
Good Practice Example Policies - 14 02 `22
Assessment Criteria for GIPPAT - 14 02 `22
Embedding Nature Based Solutions in Strategic Spatial Planning - 16 12 `21
EU PERFECT Expert paper What goes good green infrastructure policy look like - 24 09 `20
Videos
Climate Emergency Planning Policy and Practice Perspectives - 15 11 `19
what does good GI policy look like - 08 03 `19
Homing in on health in the built environment - 20 02 `19
What kind of health metrics do we need to plan healthy places - 15 11 `18
Evaluating the NPPF through a green infrastructure lens - 15 11 `18
Making the Green Belt more productive - 15 08 `18
Planning for Climate Change - 15 08 `18
Consultation Responses
Submission to Raynsford Review - 15 02 `22
Response to the Consultation on the Defra Net Gain Proposals - 14 03 `19
FINAL Consultation response to NPPF2 - 08 05 `18
Workshops
Adapting to Change using Blue-Green Infrastructure - 17 02 `22
Healthy City Design Workshop - 17 02 `22
WHAT DOES GOOD STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR NATURE CONSERVATION LOOK LIKE - 12 08 `20
Strategic Planning for Nature Conservation workshop January 2020 - 12 08 `20
What health metrics do we need to better value green spaces? - 27 07 `18
Academic and Practitioner surveys on green infrastructure priorities and challenges - 17 05 `18
Green Infrastructure Challenges, Flip Chart Results and Commentary - 31 10 `17
Presentations
Planning More Effective Delivery for Climate Change - 16 02 `22
Mainstreaming Nature Using GI - 16 02 `22
Mainstreaming GI Principles in Local Policy - 16 02 `22
Mainstreaming the Ecosystems Approach - 16 02 `22
Green Infrastructure Wales - 16 02 `22
Making Better Policies for Green Infrastructure Webinar presentation to EKN - 27 03 `19
What kind of health metrics do we need to plan healthy places - 25 09 `18
Mainstreaming GI: Talk given to Green Infrastructure Partnership Sounding Board - 17 05 `18
Planning for environmental change : talk given to RTPI hot topics in Planning 2018 - 17 05 `18
Valuing Nature Network presentation - 21 10 `17
Initial assessment of NERC research impact pathways for green infrastructure practice - 21 10 `17
Academic Papers
Improving Multifunctionality of Green Belts - 22 04 `24
Guerrilla gardening and green activism - 17 02 `22
Places of urban disorder? - 17 02 `22
A Place-Based Approach to Payments for Ecosystems Services - 16 02 `22
Mainstreaming the Environment in Policy and Decision Making - 09 08 `19
Mainstreaming Ecosystem Science in Spatial Planning - 06 11 `17
Policy Papers
Green Blue Infrastructure Impacts on Health and Wellbeing A Rapid Evidence Assessment - 22 04 `24
A planning assessment method for New Zealand based on ecosystem services - 09 03 `21
Strategic Planning Research Paper: Improving Strategic Planning for Nature Conservation - 09 03 `21
A Green Infrastructure proofed NPPF - 02 03 `18
Knowledge Exchange outputs
Is build build build really the best way forward for the English planning system? - 23 02 `22
Should Britain build on its green spaces to solve the housing crisis? - 17 02 `22
Tightening our green belts - 07 10 `19
Making Better Policies and Plans for Green Infrastructure: A Self Assessment Tool - 05 10 `18
Impact pathways for English planning DRAFT briefing note - 17 05 `18
Other
Partnership for Biodiversity in Planning - 17 02 `22
Mainstreaming nature into marine spatial planning - 09 05 `19
Impact Case Study REF2021
04 Aug 2023
This study relates to work undertaken from November 2017-December 2020
Professor Alister Scott’s research has exposed significant neglect of nature in the design and delivery of statutory planning policies, resulting in reduced quantity and quality of green infrastructure (GI) for people, communities, and biodiversity. Scott’s research co-designed and tested a self-assessment policy tool that improved the design and impact of planning policies by mainstreaming GI - translating, integrating, and normalising GI from environmental policy areas into economic and social policy priorities. Scott’s tool has been used by planning authorities to improve GI policy at regional scales e.g., West of England Combined Authority and Essex County Council, crucially going beyond existing national policy requirements, framing GI as an environmental, social, and economic asset. Natural England have used Scott’s research to develop their GI national standards framework and for the current pilot testing phase. The tool is also referenced as a key resource for local authorities by the UK Green Infrastructure Partnership and Building with Nature (UK standard for GI). The tool has also been used to assess English, Scottish, Northern Irish, and Welsh government guidance, exposing significant gaps and vulnerabilities in their GI planning policies
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