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Green Infrastructure Strategy Quality of Life Programme GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGY Cambridgeshire Horizons Endurance House Vision Park Histon Cambridge CB4 9ZR www.cambridgeshirehorizons.co.uk Tel:01223 714040 Foreword Contents Section Page Foreword Foreword 1 1 Introduction 2 2 Environmental Context 4 of the Sub-region The Cambridge Sub-region has an extremely In early 2005, we established a Quality of Life Origin statement ambitious housing target to meet over the programme, which sets high standards for 3 Methodology of Analysis 8 This document is a summary of a report that next ten years.The 2003 Cambridgeshire and housing developments in recognition of the fact of Green Infrastructure Data has been prepared by consultants The Landscape Peterborough Structure Plan makes provision for that quality is important to delivery. Creating Partnership for Cambridgeshire Horizons, 4 Review of Existing Green 10 an additional 47,500 homes to be built between balanced and mixed communities was the subject Cambridgeshire County Council, Cambridge City Infrastructure Provision 1999 and 2016. Many of these homes will be of the first piece of research, and three sub- Council, South Cambridgeshire District Council, provided in new large-scale developments on the regional strategies for green infrastructure, major 5 Towards an integrated Green 14 the Countryside Agency, the Forestry Commission, fringes of Cambridge, some of the market towns sports facilities and arts and culture were also Infrastructure Strategy Cambridge Preservation Society and English Nature. and at the proposed new town at Northstowe. commissioned to set out a long term vision 6 Funding and Implementation 20 for how new facilities will be provided to Cambridgeshire Horizons is a company established Over the next twenty years the Cambridge complement existing provision. by the Cambridgeshire Local Authorities to drive 7 Next Steps 24 Sub-region is expected to grow in population forward the delivery of the growth strategy for by approximately 130,000 people from its I am delighted that this work has now been 8 Appendices 28 the Cambridge Sub-region. current population of 425,000. One of the completed and hope you will agree with me greatest challenges we face as a consequence that the Strategy for Green Infrastructure A Steering Group drawn from all the above is ensuring that quality of life for existing and summarised in this report sets out an exciting sponsoring bodies as well as Huntingdonshire new communities in the area is improved. and realistic vision for using planned District Council and East Cambridgeshire District The key to achieving this is to enhance existing development to enhance and extend our Council oversaw the preparation of the report. infrastructure, including Green Infrastructure, network of large scale green spaces, protected to support the scale of growth proposed. sites, nature reserves and greenway linkages. I am particularly grateful to all the organisations and agencies who contributed to this strategy and look forward to working with them in the future on taking forward its recommendations. Sir David Trippier Chairman Cambridgeshire Horizons Cover image courtesy of FC Green Infrastructure Strategy 1 Introduction Introduction 1. Introduction What is Green Infrastructure? 1.1 1.5 Project, the 50–year biodiversity vision map 1.11 produced by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough The objective of the study is to draw up a The provision of Green Infrastructure has been Biodiversity Partnership and the Cambridgeshire This study takes the definition of Green bold and imaginative strategy for the provision identified as a key priority for the successful Rights of Way Improvement Plan provide valuable Infrastructure used by the Town and Country ‘All nature has a feeling: woods, fields, brooks of large-scale Green Infrastructure for the implementation of the growth agenda, and a background to the development of the Strategy. Planning Association in their publication Cambridge Sub-region over the next 20 years Green Infrastructure Forum was established Biodiversity by Design which states:- Are life eternal: and in silence they to complement and support the significant by Cambridgeshire Horizons and Cambridgeshire growth in housing provision that is planned over County Council during 2004, which included Project Brief “Green Infrastructure is defined as the Sub-regional Speak happiness beyond the reach of books; network of protected sites, nature reserves, greenspaces this period.The strategy seeks to both promote representatives from all the local authorities, 1.9 There’s nothing mortal in them; their decay a range of new creative initiatives while also relevant national and regional agencies and and greenway linkages. Green Infrastructure should embracing and developing the strategic open active local amenity/biodiversity societies and The project brief set out the requirements provide (where possible) multi-functional uses, i.e, Is the green life of change; to pass away space proposals currently being promoted by organisations, to develop projects which could of the study as follows:- wildlife, recreational and cultural experience, as a variety of agencies across the sub-region. be submitted for funding from the Government’s well as delivering ecological services, such as flood • To bring together existing data on Green And come again in blooms revivified.’ Growth Area Fund. protection and microclimate control. It should also Infrastructure sites, and map out existing From ‘All Nature has feeling’ by John Clare (1793–1864) 1.2 greenspace provision. operate at all spatial scales from urban centres 1.6 through to open countryside” The Strategy has been put together in two • To identify future greenspace needs of the growing population, looking forward documents; a full Technical Report which is The ‘Cambridge Sub-region’ is the planning at least twenty years. 1.12 available from Cambridgeshire Horizons and this sub-region as defined in the Cambridgeshire and report which is a summary version concentrating Peterborough Structure Plan 2003, i.e. the City • To identify opportunities for Green Well-designed and integrated Green on the background analysis and the key findings. of Cambridge and the surrounding ring of market Infrastructure within and adjacent to major Infrastructure improves environmental quality, towns that fall within Cambridgeshire: Ely, development sites, embracing and developing health and well-being, sense of community and St. Neots, Huntingdon, St.Ives and Chatteris, and the work being carried out by the local provides an opportunity for exercise, sport and Background to Growth planning authorities through their Local the villages within this ring. It is envisaged that informal recreation. In the context of the study Development Frameworks. 1.3 the Green Infrastructure Strategy for the area for this report, Green Infrastructure should Cambridge Sub-region should knit into the • To carry out a general analysis on the therefore contribute to and enhance the quality Over the next twenty years the Cambridge Green Infrastructure strategies being prepared wider Cambridge Sub-region identifying of life of both present and future residents and Sub-region is expected to grow in population for adjoining sub-regions, for instance the opportunities and future projects building visitors through: by approximately 130,000 people from its Peterborough Green Grid. As a result, on the W.S.Atkins report of 2004. current population of 425,000.This increase in acknowledgement of the strategic greenspaces • Providing a focus and attraction for the • To develop the analysis into a bold and increased population proposed within population can be seen as either an opportunity that fall within those parts of the wider imaginative strategy, which builds upon the Cambridge Sub-region and the wider or a threat to the quality of life enjoyed by economic sub-region that lie adjacent to but current and future initiatives and identifies London-Stansted-Cambridge-Peterborough existing communities – much will depend on outside of the Cambridge Sub-region e.g. key issues, including those relating to Growth Area the extent to which the existing infrastructure, Newmarket Heath and Therfield Heath has biodiversity, landscape and rights of way. including Green Infrastructure, can be enhanced been taken into account. • Providing further greenspace and wider to support the scale of growth proposed. • To propose an implementation strategy access to the countryside and a framework for the longer-term 1.7 management and maintenance of any • Protecting and enhancing existing 1.4 future assets created. biodiversity and creating new areas The Green Infrastructure Strategy is one of for biodiversity A number of major new developments are three studies commissioned by Cambridgeshire • Reversing the fragmentation of habitats by proposed as part of the Cambridge Sub-regional 1.10 Horizons as part of its Quality of Life Programme. restoring the connectivity between them growth strategy in the adopted Cambridgeshire The two other ‘sister’ strategies are on Arts It is envisaged that the Green Infrastructure and Peterborough Structure Plan 2003: including • Providing the opportunity to rehabilitate and Culture and Major Sports Facilities. Strategy will provide Cambridgeshire Horizons a new town of 8,000 homes at Northstowe landscapes and habitats damaged by and its partners with the long term vision and to the north west of Cambridge, a new urban previous development, agriculture or structure required to direct the development
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