The Green Infrastructure Framework can help you:
- Deliver against National Planning Policy Framework requirements for green infrastructure
- Deliver solutions to climate change and the nature crisis
- Make positive contributions to placemaking and urban renewal
Where to start
- Step 1: Understand the 'why' principles supporting the need for investment in green infrastructure
- Step 2: Understand the 'how' principles supporting the process of delivery
- Step 3: Analyse your area using the Mapping Database to determine the priorities
- Step 4: Consider which green infrastructure standards will address your challenges:
- Step 5: Consider using the Environmental Benefits from Nature Tool to highlight where benefits can be delivered to society and compare different options
Case studies
Process guide
Process guide download: for Local Planning Authorities
Step by step best practice process for developing a green infrastructure strategy and integrating green infrastructure policies into Local Plans.
Supplementary appendices:
Urban Tree Canopy Cover Standard User Guide – Appendix 7 (in development, available at a later date)
The Green Infrastructure Framework can help you:
- Meet requirements in the National Planning Policy Framework and Local Plans
- Produce attractive, desirable places to live
- Demonstrate good practice and standards
- Ensure consistency across England
Where to start
- Step 1: Commit to the 'why' principles that support the need for investment in green infrastructure
- Step 2: Follow the 'how' principles supporting the process of delivery
- Step 3: Use the Mapping Database to target intervention where local need is highest
- Step 4: Use the Green Infrastructure Design Guideto deliver green infrastructure in accordance with good practice
- Step 5: Use the Environmental Benefits from Nature Tool to highlight where benefits can be delivered to society and compare different options
Case studies
Coming soon
Process guide
Process guide download: for developers
Step by step guide for developers and design teams wishing to incorporate green infrastructure into new development
The Green Infrastructure Framework can help you:
- Demonstrate best practice
- Set standards for consistent reporting across projects
- Target inequality
- Helps achieve the most effective results
Where to start
- Step 1: Understand the 'why' principles supporting the need for investment in green infrastructure
- Step 2: Use the Mapping Database and Environmental Benefits from Nature Tool to explore how to target green infrastructure improvement and to consider options linked to Biodiversity Net Gain
- Step 3: Use the green infrastructure standards to demonstrate delivery using consistent metrics
Case studies
Coming soon
The Green Infrastructure Framework can help you:
- Support the Government's mission for sustainable growth
- Provide nature-based solutions to challenges, from public health to flooding, water supply and climate change
- Target inequality
- Join up national policies
- Ensure good practice
- Secure wider gains from development to achieve multiple policy outcomes
- Highlight wider benefits and compare options
Where to start
- Step 1: Read the 'why' principles to understand the benefits green infrastructure can offer
- Step 2: Use the Mapping Database to identify how green infrastructure can address inequalities
- Step 3: Familiarise yourself with the green infrastructure standards as a means of introducting standardised requirements through planning and development
Case studies
Coming soon
The Green Infrastructure Framework can help you:
- Make the case for green infrastructure in communities
- Make the case for funding
- Achieve best practice
- Ensure projects are targeted based on evidence of local needs
- Highlight wider benefits and compare options
Where to start
- Step 1: Familiarise yourself with what green infrastructure is
- Step 2: Read the 'why' principles to understand the benefits green infrastructure can offer
- Step 3: Use the Mapping Database to evaluate access to greenspace within your existing community and to identify areas of inequality
- Step 4: Use the design guide and the case studies to align with the 'what' principles
Case studies
Coming soon
Process guide
Step by step guide for communities preparing a neighbourhood plan and orgnisations supporting them
The Green Infrastructure Framework can help you:
- Put nature and green infrastructure at the heart of places and communities, benefitting people, place and nature
- Put the building blocks of accreditation in place
- Gather the evidience needed to support your vision
- Highlight wider benefits and compare options
Where to start
- Step 1: Read the 'why' principles to understand the benefits green infrastructure can offer
- Step 2: Explore the Mapping Database to identify how green infrastructure can address inequalities
- Step 3: Familiarise yourself with the green infrastructure standards as a means of introducing standardised requirements through planning and development
Case studies
Coming soon