Impact
Impact Case Study REF2021 - 04 08 `23
Government Consultations
National Planning Policy Framework 2024 Consultation Response Alister Scott - 11 10 `24
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
Green Belt Multifunctionality Research Papers Kirby et al - 11 10 `24
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
Tightening our green belts
07 Oct 2019
In this piece I detail how the green belt can transform cities as well as protect them. Here there is a need to ocnsider a further statutory function for green belts in responding to the climate emergency
Tightening our green belts argues for a more positive role for green belts to make them more productive spaces.
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