Green Infrastructure

What is Green Infrastructure?

Green Infrastructure is the network of green spaces, watercourses and water bodies that connect places and spaces in which people live. These places and spaces are increasingly being planned, designed and managed to achieve social, environmental and economic objectives.

Green Infrastructure provides a wide range of benefits to people and nature because it focuses on broader strategic linkages of spaces and places.

These benefits include, but are not limited to:

1. Improved water quality.

2. Reduced flood risk.

3. Climate change adaptation and resilience.

4. Increased recreational amenity.

5. Pleasing visual amenity.

It is often set and considered within a wider landscape context.

Developments may often have an effect on or enhance Green Infrastructure. Therefore landscape as an amenity and Green Infrastructure need to be considered in association with each other during the Landscape Visual Impact Assessment process.

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