SEVEN LOCHS WETLAND PARK How do you create ’s largest urban nature park? Seven Lochs Wetland Park is destined to become Scotland’s largest urban nature park

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Along with Seven Lochs We are working partners, AECOM has collaboratively to design and identified opportunities develop integrated green to protect and enhance infrastructure into the plans, the existing wetland considering both the built habitat whilst also and water environments, undertaking strategic water incorporating elements of environment restoration integrated wetland habitat, including habitat creation, SuDS and water sensitive HABITATS BURNS INTEGRATED de-culverting, channel urban design. AND GREEN AND LOCHS SURFACE naturalisation and habitat With seven lochs, five NETWORKS RESTORATION WATER restoration. local nature reserves and MANAGEMENT The project will have many a country park the Seven benefits for the area Lochs Wetland Park will be including improving habitat the heart of a wider Green connectivity, integrating Network across Scotland. We have worked Opportunities and site We have worked water management, water collaboratively with specific actions for burn collaboratively to design Over the next five years the Seven Lochs partners to and loch restoration and develop integrated sensitive urban design Seven Lochs Partnership identify a long-list of 36 have been identified and green infrastructure, and wetland habitat restoration opportunities evaluated, identifying considering both aims to establish the Seven such as wetland habitat the multiple benefits the built and water enhancement to help make Lochs Wetland Park as an creation, opening- that would be created environments, 2 the 20km park a place for exemplar of integrated green up culverts, channel and any constraints incorporating elements people, nature and heritage. naturalisation and habitat to this, including flood of integrated wetland infrastructure planning and restoration. management, habitat habitat, SuDS and water delivery. An integrated approach to creation and cost sensitive urban design wetland habitat creation effectiveness. (including surface water provides a cohesive management and urban strategy for water green space). KEY 2 20km 36 environment restoration. The principles upon FACTS TOTAL AREA IDENTIFIED RESTORATION which a detailed Surface INCLUDING OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDING Water Management Plan for each planned development can be developed have been 7 2.5km2 set out. Local conditions LOCHS HABITAT and approaches to RESTORATION the adoption and maintenance approach A prioritised list of actions for SuDS have been has been developed with discussed and a 5 5km a traffic light approach: maintenance schedule LOCAL NATURE CHANNEL RESTORATION Green – clear approach, in line with the SuDS RESERVES + DECULVERTING multiple benefits, projects manual is proposed. should be taken forward in the short-term. 1 1.5km2 Amber – more limited COUNTRY WETLAND/SURFACE benefits, projects should PARK WATER MANAGEMENT be taken forward as opportunities arise. Red – multiple For more information benefits, more detailed on the scheme visit: RESTORATION OF LOCH consideration of approach www.sevenlochs.org/ MARGINS required to understand planning-the-park costs and benefits.

Members of the Seven Lochs Partnership: City Council, Council, Designed by: AECOM, Collective Architecture, Supported by funding from: Forestry Commission Scotland, Scottish National Heritage, The Conservation Volunteers GCV Green Network Central Scotland Green Network (CSGN) and Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)