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Developing a Green Infrastructure Strategy for Essex - Professor Andrew Lovett - University of East Anglia

Professor Andrew Lovett of the University of East Anglia discusses Developing a Green Infrastructure Strategy for Essex as part of the 2018 Business and Local Government Data Research Centre conference Bringing Data to Life for Policy and Practice

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Developing a Green Infrastructure Strategy for Essex - Professor Andrew Lovett - University of East Anglia

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  1. Developing a Green Infrastructure Strategy for Essex Andrew Lovett and Gisela Sünnenberg a.lovett@uea.ac.uk, g.sunnenberg@uea.ac.uk 27th November 2018

  2. Project Context • The population of Essex is projected to expand by over 15% in 20 years. • Essex County Council is developing a Green Infrastructure Strategy to: • Identify current GI assets, functions & benefits • Assess the implications of proposed new developments • Highlight needs & opportunities to enhance GI provision

  3. Approach (1)

  4. Approach (2)

  5. Results: Greenspace Distribution

  6. Results: Cycle Paths & PRoW

  7. Results: Local Authorities

  8. Results: Local Authorities

  9. Results: Provision of Functions

  10. Results: Proximity to GI in Maldon

  11. Results: Planned Development Sites

  12. Conclusions & Next Steps • The approach makes it possible to examine GIS provision at a high level of spatial detail and in terms of the supported functions and benefits. • Next steps are to: • Assess associations with socio-economic variables • Complete mapping of potential development sites • Undertake further spatial analysis to identify strategic needs & opportunities to enhance GI provision

  13. Acknowledgements Thanks to Jayne Rogers, Paul Hinsley, Aleks Bogdanov and John Meehan of Essex County Council

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