Partnership for South Hampshire publishes LUC’s strategic green and blue infrastructure opportunities report
The Partnership for South Hampshire (PfSH) has published LUC’s report outlining Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI) opportunities in South Hampshire.
PfSH commissioned LUC to identify and map key strategic Green and Blue Infrastructure opportunities for projects to deliver significant ecosystem service benefits.
LUC collaborated with key stakeholders responsible for developing, delivering, monitoring, or regulating regional GBI projects to understand relevant work completed to date and key local and national datasets.
We then collated and mapped the data to define five broad opportunity zones (improved access to nature, nature recovery, nutrient mitigation, recreational impact mitigation for habitat sites (European sites) and natural flood risk management).
By layering these zones, our experts pinpointed "strategic opportunity zones" for multi-benefit GBI projects.
The findings are already proving influential in advocating for funding for new GBI projects, including a proposal for a Regional Park in South Hampshire.
This work builds an earlier collaboration between PfSH and LUC, which focused on exploring the feasibility and scope of a range of planning policy mechanisms for protecting and enhancing its open countryside, such as Green Belt land, areas of separation, green and blue infrastructure, landscape designations, country parks, and regional parks.
