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Parklands
for
Prosperity

Humber Estuary Conference
The Guildhall
28 November 2017

1. Economy or GI?
2. Atlantic Gateway Parklands
3. Community Environment Fund
4. LCR GI Framework
5. Final thoughts ….

1.
Economy or GI?

What is GI and why is it
important?
GI is the network of natural
and semi-natural features,
green spaces, rivers and
lakes within and between our
villages, towns and cities.
When appropriately planned,
designed and managed, these
green assets have the
potential to deliver many
benefits – from providing
sustainable transport links
to mitigating the effects of
climate change.

Landscape Ins;tute

Kö-Bogen Düsseldorf
daniel-libeskind.com

Atlantic Gateway

Atlantic Gateway
Investment Priorities
1. Liverpool2
2. Liverpool Waters
3. Wirral Waters:
4. Liverpool J L A
5. Ince Park
6. 3MG
7. Mersey Gateway
8. Daresbury
9. Omega
10. Warrington Waters
11. Northern Hub
12. Port Salford
13. MediaCity UK
14. Airport City
15. HS2

International Comparators

Atlantic Gateway Parklands

Landscape character assessment
Landscape character areas
Landscape character
The Evidence Base

Topography and views
Topography
and
sightlines
The Evidence Base

‘Adapting the Landscape’, 2009

Accessible landscape
Diverse landscape
The Approach

Water and the
Landscape
Urban landscape
The Approach

Innovative landscape
Playful landscape
The Approach

Parklands PLACE
www.farrellreview.co.uk

The Landscape for Prosperity will be delivered through a series of partner-led
initiatives and projects, championed by the Atlantic Gateway Parklands.
Together these will create a new dimension across the Mersey Belt – a collection
of strategic ‘Planned Landscapes and Creative Environments’; our Parklands
PLACEs. We envision these PLACEs developing under four categories:
Strategic Environmental Initiatives
Those projects with a direct link to the key
Atlantic Gateway economic assets and with
which the Parklands will seek a direct
relationship and supporting role to assist in
their delivery within the first 3–5 years of the
Parklands initiative.
Emergent Environmental Assets
Transformational partner initiatives, which
will create a landscape that is liveable and
investment ready. These will drive forward the
economy of the Gateway and support the
wider connection of environmental assets
through the creation of the Parklands concept.
natural assets which are critical to the
Gateway’s biodiversity and resilience and
which form the backbone of the
environmental quality that will act as a
competitive advantage in attracting and
retaining talent and investment.
Strategic Flood Defence Investments
Strategic Landscape Assets
The critical natural assets that can contribute
to relieving the drag on development by
dealing with issues at ‘Pinch Points’ and up-
stream of key developments through Green
Infrastructure and natural capital investments.
Parklands PLACE

Port Salford Greenway visualisation and concept plan (BDP)
Port Salford Greenway

Great Manchester Wetlands

GreenPrint for Growth

Wirral Waters Green Grid
Strategic Environment Initiatives
Town & Country Planning February 2015 77
this in the North End of Birkenhead. Ilchester Park
itself was never considered a park until 2014 – it has
only recently been adopted as a park by the local
authority. Before that, it was simply a neglected
green space in the middle of a windswept housing
estate that had seen better days.Ann McLachlan,
the local ward councillor and Deputy Leader of
Wirral Council, explains how much has changed:
‘Ten years ago, when I became a councillor, [the
park] had tenement buildings on it. It had a pub
known as the ‘Blood Tub’ (it was called the New
After a morning of unseasonal squalls, the sun
has broken through at Ilchester Park. Children are
gathering in a giant tipi in which African drummers
are ramping up the party mood. Others are preparing
costumes for a street parade. An avenue of young
silver birch trees has been yarn-bombed in bright
colours. Below them there are clusters of wild
flowers planted by local children.
It might sound like a typical August Bank Holiday
community festival in many parts of Britain. But
until recently nobody would have imagined doing
planting a sense
of pride
Julian Dobson looks at how the inclusion of green infrastructure
within regeneration activity in Birkenhead andWirralWaters has
improved local environments and helped to lay the ground
for further investment
Above
Fun for all – children queue up for the climbing wall at a community event in Ilchester Park
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Dock Inn), and the old tenement style courtyard
was known as the ‘Bull Ring’. It was a rough,
tough area. But people from the North End live
in the North End, stay in the North End; their
families live here.’
In recent years a series of housing upgrades by
Magenta Living, the largest social landlord in the
borough, have provided new external cladding and
energy-saving improvements. Homes deemed unfit
or unsuitable have been demolished. A private
developer, Keepmoat, is starting to build homes for
sale on the demolition sites. But housing has not
been the only change. Ilchester Park is at the heart
of The Mersey Forest’s Green Streets initiative, a
key part of the jigsaw that is the regeneration of
the former industrial heart of Birkenhead and the
neighbourhoods that served the dock areas.
Green Streets is a programme to plant thousands
of trees across neighbourhoods in Merseyside and
North Cheshire, funded through a range of agencies,
including the Forestry Commission’s Setting the Scene
for Growth programme, the INTERREG ForeStClim
project, and the Government’s Local Sustainable
Transport Fund, as well as the Department of Business,
Innovation and Skills and the Big Tree Plant. In the
Wirral, it dovetails with long-term plans to improve the
green infrastructure and enhance biodiversity around
is being introduced to attract children and families.
The Veolia Environmental Trust has contributed
£67,000 through the Landfill Communities Fund to
construct natural play areas and a network of new
paths.
‘The community have got wide open green space
for their children to play in, for them to breathe in
really, rather than them being in an overcrowded
environment,’ Ann McLachlan says. ‘Physically
there’s a big difference, but it’s raised aspiration in
the community as well about a better quality of life.
I think local people feel a garden’s been brought to
them. Where people have no gardens, they feel the
greening of their community is a welcome addition
to their life.’
Anna Barnish, Manager of North Birkenhead
Development Trust, the main community organisation
for the area, sees the greening of local streets and
the revitalisation of the park as part of a long-term
change in the fortunes of one of the most deprived
neighbourhoods in the UK:
‘In spring when the trees are in blossom it looks
lovely, and people comment on how uplifting it is
to walk down a street which is lined with trees in
full blossom. If you look at the trees, there’s
been very little damage to them, which shows
the impact that the process of education and
engagement has had.’
That engagement has been secured through
close partnerships between Mersey Forest staff and
community organisations to involve local people in
choosing which trees are planted where, building a
sense of ownership of the greening of the wider
area. North Birkenhead Development Trust is now
supporting plans to set up a friends’ group to plan
events and activities and help care for Ilchester Park.
‘There are people that genuinely enjoy living here
and using the space and want to see it develop,’
Anna Barnish says. ‘It’s a very up and coming area –
there is the new Keepmoat housing development,
and Wirral Borough Council are doing loads and
loads to encourage positive development, with new
shops in the area. The fact that there’s new private
development in housebuilding says a lot. It says that
people want to live here.’
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Above
A greener scene – tree planting by The Mersey Forest at
Egerton Dock, Birkenhead

2.
Community Environment Fund
Acknowledgment:
The work of the Atlantic Gateway Parklands
has been made possible by the generosity of

2,500,000,000
15,300,000,000
153,000,000

image courtesy of Cheshire Life
Photo by Toria Buzza
9 CEF Funded Projects
£141k : £1.621M

author/illustrator: Timothy Basil Ering

Image courtesy of Cheshire Life

strategic framework
(Parkinson Inc)

Image by Mark Loudon
www.markloudon.com
“It all starts with a park ..... a park which will use
beauty as a compe;;ve advantage to aYract wealth,
talent and investment” Bruce Mau

www.atlanticgateway.co.uk www.fritzhaeg.com/garden/initiatives/everton-peoples-park

4.
Liverpool City Region
GI Framework

5.
Final thoughts …

“Why is America such a violent
country Mr. Wilde?”

The issue of
sustainability is
here to stay
Armed with wealth
and the best of
health, in the future
when all’s well

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