Planning, Landscape & the Natural Heritage
Greenspace - Greenspace for Communities
Greenspace for Communities
Greenspace for Communities (GfC) is a major project promoting the provision of a rich variety of accessible greenspace in and around our towns and cities. Led and core funded by SNH in partnership with local authorities and others, funding for the first three years of the initiative was secured from the Big Lottery Fund. One of the main achievments of the GfCI has been the establishment of Greenspace Scotland.
For more details on SNH's involvement in this initiative have a look at;
- SNH's Greenspace for Communities Initiative Plan,
- GfCI Progress Report, 2002 - 2005
- GfCI Annual Report 2005/2006
The central themes of the initiative are:
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increasing community involvement in the management of greenspaces;
- developing partnerships to enhance local greenspace and improve the contribution of greenspace action to health, social justice, planning, and economic development objectives.
Greenspace Scotland’s mission - working together to improve the quality of life of people in urban communities through the creation and sustainable management of greenspaces.
Greenspace Scotland brings together local greenspace partnerships and national organisations to raise the profile of greenspace across Scotland. The organisation -
- co-ordinate greenspace action
- promote good practice
- raise the profile of greenspace
- win additional resources
These local partnerships work with communities in developing and delivering greenspace projects.
- Aberdeen Countryside Project
- Central Scotland Forest Trust
- Edinburgh Greenbelt Trust
- Solway Heritage
- Fife Coast & Countryside Trust
- GreenInverness
- Dundee Partnership for the Environment
- Glasgow and Clyde Valley Green Network
The Glasgow and Clyde Valley Green Network is replacing the Glasgow and Clyde Valley Greenspace Trust as the coordinating body for greenspace in the area. This partnership between SNH, local authorities, the Forestry Commission and other organisations will continue to develop and enhance greenspace in the Glasgow and Clyde Valley area.
Greenspace work in the Glasgow and Clyde Valley area is carried out by these organisations
- Carts Greenspace
- Kelvin Clyde Greenspace
- Lower Clyde Greenspace
- South Lanarkshire Greenspace
- West Dunbartonshire Greenspace