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Now published: CJS Focus on Urban Environment in association with Love Parks
22 pages in total this Focus in association with Love Parks highlights the urban
environment. The lead article from Love Parks highlights some of the work the
campaign is involved in across the UK. Heritage
Lottery Fund draws up some of the main points from their ‘State of UK
Public Parks 2014’ report and gives details of how they want to assist in the
future. Nesta’s Rethinking Parks
programme is a real boost to the Parks sector read about some of their projects
and ideas. Birmingham City Council
created the first new city centre park in Birmingham for 130 years in 2012,
read about the process they went through and see how successful it has been.
Community involvement is an important addition to urban environment management,
Caring for God’s Acre (CFGA) discuss
some of the ways in which they encourage the local community to care for their
local space. The importance of urban gardens as wildlife habitats has been much
played down over the years. The Wildlife
Gardening Forum aims to change that and gives some information on what they
are doing to raise the profile of gardens. Natural
England pick a couple of points from their MEBIE2 report and give some
examples of evidence of the good urban greenspace can do. A long list of the
benefits of trees is provided by Treeconomics
who then go on to detail how benefits can now be determined in economic terms. greenspace scotland have a large number
of resources available to green space managers, they give information on two of
their current projects. Henry Barnard
is kind enough to run us through some of the issues he encounters as an urban
Countryside Ranger and we finish with an interview piece on the Greater London National Park campaign,
is it a good idea or not? This edition also includes some adverts for products,
projects, websites and services.