A look at how charities in Bristol are building on our year as European Green Capital and working with communities to green our streets

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Landscape Institute South West
Old Spaces to New Places:
The Benefits of Placemaking
in Bristol’s Urban Regeneration
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Bristol Green Capital Partnership
Developing and Delivering a Vision
for a Greener Bristol
Ian Barrett
Vice Chair, Bristol Green Capital Partnership
Chief Executive, Avon Wildlife Trust
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• Green Infrastructure
• Bristol Green Capital Partnership
• Creating a Vision for Change
• Community Placemaking
• Challenges & Opportunities
Green Infrastructure

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Green Infrastructure

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Green Infrastructure

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Green infrastructure describes all of the
green space (parks, open spaces, playing
fields, woodlands, street trees, allotments,
and private gardens), blue space (streams,
canals, wetlands) and green features (green
roofs and walls) within your development…
Green Infrastructure

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“A low carbon city with a
high quality of life for all”

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Bristol 2015 Ambitions
• Energy theme: Our ambition is for Bristol to become the UK’s first city for sustainable energy,
leading the way towards smart energy efficiency, affordable warmth and 100% renewables,
with a thriving low carbon sector delivering solutions for the city and across the world
• Food theme: Our ambition is for Bristol to be the sustainable food capital of the UK by 2020
• Nature theme: Our ambition is to make Bristol a world-leading, nature rich (biophilic) city
where people are connected to a landscape rich in wildlife
• Resource theme: Our ambition is to make Bristol a leading circular economy city, where
people are focussed on reducing their residual waste (through waste prevention, re-use and
recycling) and businesses are engaged in adopting circular economy business models
• Transport theme: Our ambition is to make Bristol a world leading city in active travel, where
4 out of 5 journeys under five miles are made by foot, bike and public transport
Bristol Green Capital Partnership

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How do we work with our city to build support
for and start to create:
• High quality green infrastructure and habitat
networks that are good for people & wildlife?
• Sustainable transport networks that provide
attractive alternatives to car travel?
Creating a Vision for Change

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• MetroWest & Metrobus
• Cycling City
• Hydrogen ferry
• Grassroots Projects
• Congestion
• Air pollution
• Controversy
• Conflict
Transport
Creating a Vision for Change

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Creating a Vision for Change

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Creating a Vision for Change

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“Bolder vision for
what we want to
achieve”
“How to translate the
aspiration into
delivery”
“Good start but would
like to see more
ambition”
“Too much carrot,
not enough stick”
“It must be implemented,
not another strategy that
gathers dust on a shelf”
©JonCraig.co.uk
Creating a Vision for Change

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Creating a Vision for Change

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Creating a Vision for Change

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Creating a Vision for Change

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Creating a Vision for Change
Our Ambition
to make Bristol a nature-rich city for the benefit of people and
wildlife
Vision
a city where whole streets get together to enhance their back
gardens for wildlife, and where communities and businesses
are engaged in the management of their local green spaces

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1. Public engagement - events, activities, workshops
2. Toolkit – ‘how to’ guides – for Bristol residents to
implement in their own back gardens
3. Work with interest groups and ‘Wildlife Champions’
4. Create demonstration sites and case studies
5. Linking with other 2015 work
6. Knowledge exchange & evaluation
Creating a Vision for Change

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Creating a Vision for Change

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“Tactical Urbanism”
Community Placemaking
New York

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Community Placemaking Street Kit

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Community Placemaking Street Kit

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Community Placemaking Street Kit

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Community Placemaking Street Kit

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Community Placemaking Street Kit

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Community Placemaking Street Kit

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Community Placemaking Southmead SuDs

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Community Placemaking Southmead SuDs

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Community Placemaking Southmead SuDs

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Community Placemaking Southmead SuDs

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Community Placemaking My Wild Street

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Personal
House
Designs
Community Placemaking My Wild Street

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What can you do?
Providing the four key needs of any species:
1. Food
2. Water
3. Shelter
4. Breeding Sites
Community Placemaking My Wild Street

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Community Placemaking My Wild Street

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Community Placemaking My Wild Street

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Community Placemaking My Wild Street

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Community Placemaking My Wild Street

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Challenges & Opportunities

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My Wild….
My Wild Swimming Pool
My Wild Park – 8 parks
My Wild Street – 31 houses
My Wild Cathedral – Peregrine box & wildflowers
My Wild Business – Gloucester road (30 businesses)
My Wild Hospital – 2 hospitals
My Wild Office – BBC garden
My Wild Development – new build, social housing
My Wild Bedminster – whole neighbourhood
Challenges & Opportunities

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Challenges & Opportunities

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Challenges & Opportunities

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Challenges & Opportunities
Ecosystem Service Mapping

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Green Infrastructure Benchmark
We are… working closely with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
to develop a green infrastructure benchmark
The benchmark will… help developers and planners define
“what good looks like” and how it can be achieved
Wild Service will… work with developers to deliver high
quality green infrastructure at each stage of the
development process
Challenges & Opportunities

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Why green infrastructure? Why Wild Service?
“Green infrastructure is often a complex and time-consuming element of large projects and
getting it right can mean the difference between a smooth passage through the planning
system and costly delays.
Whether your development scheme is large or small, your approach to green infrastructure
may help secure planning approval. We work with you to demonstrate how you have
considered local priorities for wildlife, water management and wellbeing of residents.
We have the skills and understanding to help you make sense of the different aspects of green
infrastructure – relating to wildlife, people, and the wider landscape – and support you to
deliver a project which is both environmentally-sensitive and cost-sensitive.”
Challenges & Opportunities

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Wildlife
Does the development
contribute to net biodiversity
gain through the creation of
new habitat and
enhancement of existing
habitat?
Does the development
promote consideration of
biodiversity in all aspects and
phases of construction?
Water
Does the design for SuDS, and
all its components, follow
current good practice in terms
of design, implementation
and long-term management?
Are features relating to
relating to water management
used to enhance local
distinctiveness and add value
to the overall design?
Wellbeing
Does the development
consider how street furniture
and other features can
optimise use of green
infrastructure at all times of
year?
Does the development
demonstrate innovative
solutions to overcoming social
and cultural barrier to access
and use of green space?
Challenges & Opportunities

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1. PRE-APPLICATION
2. LANDSCAPE DESIGN
3. IMPLEMENTATION
4. LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT
5. SITE MAINTENANCE
Wild Service - Five stages of support and delivery
Workingwithtrustedpartners
Challenges & Opportunities

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- A low carbon city with a high quality of life for all -
Developing and Delivering
a Vision for a Greener Bristol

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Join Avon Wildlife Trust us today to protect your local
wildlife and wild places.
Become part of our growing community of like-minded
people striving to take action for nature.
Our Vision
• Create ecological networks on a landscape scale
• Inspire people and communities to care about nature
• Champion the value of nature
http://www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/joinus