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Lower River Dee Green Infrastructure Action Plan Lower river Dee Green infrastructure action PLan Contents Lower River Dee Green Infrastructure Action Plan Executive Summary 2 Chapter 1 - Introduction 4 • Purpose of the GI Action Plan • Method There are significant opportunities for a more comprehensive Chapter 2 – Evidence Base 9 and connected network of Green Infrastructure within the lower River Dee area that will deliver many socio-economic and environmental benefits Chapter 3 – Existing Green Infrastructure Initiatives 16 • Connah’s Quay & Shotton Masterplan • CWaC Rural Regeneration Stratergy • Stakeholder Consultation • Case Studies Chapter 4 – Lower River Dee GI Plan 25 • Action Schedule • GI Maps • Taking GI Forward/Next Steps Appendices Dee Riverside, Connah’s Quay Front Cover Image - Burton Mere Wetlands Page 1 Executive Summary The Lower River Dee Green Infrastructure (GI) Action Plan covers the area downstream from Chester as far as Connah’s Quay in Wales and Neston in England. The area is rich and diverse and is home to the Dee Estuary, one of the most important ecosystems in the UK and also to the strategic Northern Gateway site, the Deeside towns and parts of West Cheshire. GI is the network of multifunctional greenspaces, both new and existing, both rural and urban, which supports the natural and ecological processes and is integral to the health and quality of life of sustainable communities. The Action Plan demonstrates how a comprehensive and connected GI network can deliver many social, economic and environmental benefits focussing particularly within the Deeside towns, the Deeside Industrial Park and a corridor linking Chester with Neston and the Wirral. The Action Plan proposes a number of projects that can help deliver a high quality living environment on Deeside and support the economic attractiveness and performance of the area. While on the Cheshire side the Wirral- Chester Way can connect a number of attractions and improve the natural economy there. To be successful the Action Plan now needs a core team to drive GI forward in the coming years. This will be a partnership between the local authorities, businesses and voluntary and community groups. The core team will also need a large number of supporters and activists to ensure GI is delivered on the ground Deeside Industrial Park Page 2 Lower River Dee Green Infrastructure Action Plan Key Diagram Page 3 Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.1 This is an action plan for the natural environment (or green infrastructure) improved flood resilience and enhanced biodiversity. of the Lower River Dee. It covers the area downstream of Chester; as far 1.4 The area’s industrial heritage and the physical barriers caused as Queensferry in Wales and Neston in England. It includes actions to by transport infrastructure make it difficult to enhance the green enhance the quality of the river, its settlements and the countryside. infrastructure network. Nevertheless, this Action Plan outlines several 1.2 The Lower River Dee is a rich and diverse area. Straddling the Wales- significant opportunities to support growth and sustainability, including: England border, the River Dee and Dee estuary is one of the most •Unlocking economic development potential important ecosystems in the UK. Deeside is a thriving economic •Addressing health inequalities & creating a high quality of life centre, hosting numerous major employers and acting as a hub for •Underpining the economy with a healthy & biodiverse landscape power generation and transport infrastructure. Deeside is one of five fabric Welsh Enterprise Zones, focussing on advanced manufacturing. West •Helping to climate proof the urban and rural landscape Cheshire’s heritage is of enormous value, creating a unique sense of •Promotion of heritage assets place, as well as underpinning its value to the leisure and tourism. 1.5 The document demonstrates how investment in green infrastructure will 1.3 High quality green infrastructure is critical to quality of life and economic help deliver the community priorities in the Flintshire Local Development success in the Lower River Dee. There are major opportunities for Plan & the Cheshire West and Chester Core Strategy. The document has investing in the area’s green infrastructure to deliver benefits such as been prepared in 2011, and looks forward for a fifteen year period, with improved tourism, sustainable commuting routes, healthier lifestyles, an action schedule for the forthcoming five years. What is green Infrastructure? “Green infrastructure is a region’s life support system – the network of natural environmental components and green and blue spaces that lies within and between cities, towns and villages which provides multiple social, economic and environmental benefits’’ Green Infrastructure North West Page 4 Lower River Dee Green Infrastructure Action Plan 1.6 The GI Action Plan area follows the River Dee from Saltney westwards towards the estuary and includes Queensferry and Connah’s Quay along the river’s southern banks. On the northern side the area extends from the fringes of Blacon, taking in Saughall, the Deeside Industrial Park, Burton and Neston. Green Infrastructure types GI refers to many different types of greenspaces, in public and private ownership, with and without public access, in urban and rural locations: • Parks and Gardens – urban parks, pocket parks, country parks, formal gardens and country estates. • Amenity Greenspace – informal recreation spaces, children’s play areas, playing fields, communal green spaces within housing areas, domestic gardens, village greens, urban commons and other incidental space. • Natural and Semi-Natural Greenspaces – woodland and scrub, nature reserves, grassland, heaths, wetlands, open water bodies, running water and some brownfield sites with biodiversity interest. • Green Corridors – rivers/canals including their banks, road and rail corridors/verges, hedgerows, ditches, cycling routes, pedestrian paths and rights of way. • Other Greenspace – allotments, community gardens, green roofs, city farms, cemeteries and churchyards, registered commons, village and town greens, heritage sites, development sites with potential for open space and links, land in agri- environmental management. Page 5 The Purpose of the GI Action Plan Plan (Flintshire County Council) and Local Development Framework (Cheshire West and Chester Council). Following endorsement, the 1.7 The Action Plan seeks to: Action Plan will also be used to assist with development management •translate the aspirations of the Flintshire and Cheshire West decisions. Community Strategies for a high-quality environment into tangible actions North East Wales, Cheshire & Wirral Gi Framework •provide a framework for local organisations already delivering GI to 1.10 The Framework, prepared in 2010, considers the natural environments see how and where their activity can contribute to the GI network of North East Wales, Cheshire and Wirral and sets out a vision of how •promote the benefits of GI to a wide audience (including land owners, business managers, community groups, health and education healthy natural environments can sustain economic growth and thriving professionals and elected representatives). communities, supported by evidence base. The Framework identified •inform planning and economic development policy (e.g. the Flintshire several “Action Plan Areas”; geographically distinct places where Local Development Plan and Cheshire West and Chester Local concerted investment in creating and enhancing the GI network would Development Framework) bring much public benefit. •inform Cheshire West and Chester’s LDF Infrastructure Delivery Plan 1.11 The Framework recognised the Lower River Dee area as an important •enable and inform negotiations between planning authorities engine for future economic growth. Investment in GI will help to future- and developers (e.g. Section 106 agreements and Community Infrastructure Levy contributions). proof the towns and economic areas against climate change and will also boost the quality of the area’s greenspaces thus bringing health, 1.8 The authors elected to keep the document as short as practical to tourism and biodiversity benefits. focus on the Action Schedule (Chapter 4). This means that much of the evidence on the social, environmental and economic context is reported 1.12 The Framework identified three types of GI initiative most relevant to the through maps and summary text in chapters 2 and 3. More detailed Lower Dee, and the Action Plan (Chapter 4) is structured around these evidence is available in a technical report accompanying the North East three headings: Wales, Cheshire and Wirral GI Framework (see 1.4 below). 1.4 •Settlement focussed GI activity North East Wales, Cheshire & Wirral GI Framework •Coast and estuary management Status of the Action Plan •Boosting the natural and visitor economy The Lower Dee Action Plan area links to two others: Chester and Ellesmere 1.9 The Action Plan will be considered by both local authorities and, if Port and Flintshire Coast. endorsed, will feed into the evidence base for the Local Development Page 6 Lower River Dee Green Infrastructure Action Plan Page 7 Method 1.13 The GI Action Plan was prepared during 2011 with support and guidance from a group of officers from Flintshire County Council, Cheshire West and Chester Council, the Environment Agency and Countryside Council for Wales together with other locally based stakeholders. 1.14 Preparation of the Action Plan involved the following steps, all carried out in collaboration with
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