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Development and Regeneration Services
Integrating Surface Water Management Planning & Green Infrastructure to
help deliver multiple benefits in Glasgow
Gaye McKay & Laura MacDonald Glasgow City Council
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Introduction
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City Deal
Benefitting People
Deliver £2.2 billion in
additional Gross Value Added per
annum
Benefitting Communities
29,000 jobs Benefitting Businesses
Support over 5,500 people into sustained
work.
Lever in an estimated
£3.3 billion of private sector
investment
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SWMPs in Glasgow:
Hillington/Cardonald Fullarton Avenue
High Knightswood/ Netherton
Eastern Springburn Darnley Mains Drumchapel
Cardowan/Cockenzie Street Overwood Drive/Aikenhead Road
Kings Park Croftfoot
Garrowhill Glasgow City Centre
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Who? What? Why?
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The strategic aims of green infrastructure
To improve the quality, accessibility
and quantity of green infrastructure in
Scotland’s towns and cities
To provide increased and better
opportunities for people to improve
their health and well-being;
To address inequality by creating new
green space, and improve existing sites
for communities in areas of multiple
deprivation and/or for communities living close to vacant and
derelict land
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Masterplanning at a Catchment Scale
• Best Value for Money • What can be achieved? • Where can funding be found? • Limitless opportunities
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Collaboration & Funding Working with Development Control and applying
guidance
Working with Strategic Planners
Working with Parks
Working with Ecologists
Working with Roads
Revenue & Capital Funding
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Halfway Community Park (Moss Heights) Cardonald
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Halfway Community Park
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Cranhill Park
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Community Consultation
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Discussion • Based upon you own experiences, what do you consider the
potential barriers to the introduction of blue/green infrastructure and how can these obstacles be overcome?
• In the examples provided Glasgow City Council collaborated with numerous organisations to help deliver multiple benefits. What do consider are the advantages of this approach? How can we encourage others to adopt a similar approach?
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Advantages of a collaborative approach