2. Atlantic Gateway Parklands
Richard Tracey - Interim Project Director
The FUZZY emergence of …..
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The Landscape for Prosperity
46. Visualisations of the Children’s Health Park, Alder Hey Hospital (both BDP)
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The Evidence Base
Case study: Children’s Health Park – Alder Hey, Liverpool
49. Transformational partner
initiatives which will create a
landscape which is liveable and
investment ready.
Strategic Existing Landscape Assets Flood Defence
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Parklands PLACE
The Landscape for Prosperity will be delivered through
'Planned Landscapes and Creative Environments'
Strategic Environmental Initiatives
A direct link to the key Atlantic
Gateway economic assets and
delivery within the first 3–5 years
of the Parklands initiative.
Emergent Environmental Assets
Natural assets that will act as a
competitive advantage in
attracting and retaining talent and
investment.
The critical natural assets up-stream
of key developments
through Green Infrastructure and
natural capital investments.
51. Strategic Environmental Initiatives
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Irwell River Park
Salford Meadows Bridge, winning design by Salford Meadows Bridge, winning design by Tonkin Liu with Arup Tonkin Liu with Arup
52. Strategic Environmental Initiatives
Port Salford Greenway visualisation and concept plan (BDP)
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Port Salford Greenway
64. Strategic Environmental Initiatives
It all starts with
a park, Everton Park
..... a park which will
use beauty as a
competitive advantage
to attract wealth,
talent and investment.
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from Bruce Mau, 2010
69. Strategic Environmental Initiatives
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Everton Park – 800 years of history
in one view
Image by Mark Loudon
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72. The vital importance of natural
capital and environmental quality
must be mainstreamed
To To the Third & Environmental Sectors the UK Government
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Parklands
Recommendations
Delivering the Landscape for Prosperity demands a
generational timescale. Our recommendations are:
To Investors
All developments should
contribute to GI and
environmental improvement –
AG’s CEF is an exemplar
For planning & economic development
Natural Accelerate the pace of
collaboration and innovation
Support AG Parklands as a special
initiative of national importance by
aligning government agencies to
its delivery
73. The issue of
sustainability is
here to stay
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Armed with wealth
and the best of
health, in the future
when all’s well
74. “…. a connected
landscape between
cities
... a very individual
thing .......
continuing over
one generation,
step by step,
project by project,
park by park,
river by river,
it will at the end,
in some way,
be completed .. ”
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Michael Schwarze-Rodrian!