Green Network - The Blueprint

Green Network The Blueprint Making the Connections

What is it?

The Blueprint is a framework for the creation of a strategic Green Network for the benefit of people and wildlife in Glasgow City Region It incorporates the fundamental functions of a Green Network (GN):

The Blueprint identifies for both networks:

> an Access Network – facilitating the off-road movement of people between communities through greenspace

> where protection and enhancements are required

> a Habitat Network – facilitating the movement of wildlife through the landscape

> opportunities to address those gaps

> existing Green Network assets

> where there are gaps in the networks

The Blueprint will help to target resources and effort effectively, creating and enhancing the right Green Network component in the right place for most benefit

What are the benefits?

Opportunities Access Network

The Blueprint will contribute to sustainable inclusive economic growth and increase wellbeing by helping to deliver: > a successful, sustainable place where people want to work, invest and live healthy lives > a natural, resilient place that improves and protects the environment > a connected and low carbon place providing opportunities for exercise, including active travel, and improvements to mental wellbeing

The Strategic Access Network is comprised of more than 200 routes over 500 miles. Currently 60% of the routes are within the Green Network.

The Blueprint identifies opportunities to address the on-road sections of the network.

The Existing Strategic Access Network 60% Greenspace 0

Green Route

40% On-road Route 500

MILES OF ACCESS NETWORK

How will it be delivered?

A region-wide accessible Green Network can help address social and environmental injustices and provide a tangible response to climate change

A variety of mechanisms will need to be employed to deliver the Blueprint.

The major mechanisms can be categorised as:

Habitat Network Over 40% of our region is comprised of wildlife habitat, but these habitats are not well connected.

The Blueprint identifies nearly 800 targeted opportunities to connect Habitat Networks.

Access

Habitat

Network

Network

GN Blueprint

+ 1%

“I’d like to live in a place where I have the opportunity to walk to the shops and work and see birds, butterflies and the changing seasons as I go”

Planned Development

Public Sector Programmes

Infrastructure Investments

Funding Opportunities

Integrating GN delivery into planning proposals

Securing and enhancing publicly-owned GN assets

Combining GN delivery with grey infrastructure projects

Preparing GN projects for environmental funding programmes

“Won’t it be wonderful to cycle across our region from Biggar to Balloch, and Cumbernauld to Clyde Muirshiel through our Green Network”

more habitat

delivers

+ 40%

larger networks

One of the best ways we can repair our damaged environment is to link together the places that sustain our wildlife and the ecosystem services they give us

Green Network The Blueprint

Making the Connections

Strategic Access

www.gcvgreennetwork.gov.uk

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Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park

Network

Campsie Fells & Mugdock Country Park

Balloch Milngavie

The Access Network should aid off-road movement, through greenspaces and green routes, connecting people to places they want to go such as shops, schools and transport hubs, and to places of work and places for recreation, such as parks.

Kirkintilloch

Drumchapel

Kilpatrick Hills

Bishopbriggs

Maryhill

Stepps

Botanic Gardens Clydebank

Boden Boo

Partick

Easterhouse

Lunderston Bay

Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park

Wemyss Bay

Castle Semple Country Park

Glasgow City Centre

Pollok Country Park

Paisley

1

Eaglesham

Airdrie

> PARTNERS: East Renfrewshire Council

Coatbridge

2

Bellshill

Cambuslang Castlemilk

Cathkin Braes Country Park

Newton Mearns

Dams to Darnley Country Park

Neilston

> FUNDING: Scottish Water – community benefits agreement > DELIVERED BY: Scottish Water contractor - pipe renewal project

Cuningar Woodland Park

Govanhill

Nitshill

Lochwinnoch

Cumbernauld

Seven Lochs Wetland Park

Kelvinbridge

Renfrew

Greenock

0.5km of footpath reconstruction

Moodiesburn

Anniesland

Dumbarton

Barrhead:

Cumbernauld Living Landscape

John Muir Way

Strathclyde Country Park

Hamilton

Motherwell

Chatelherault Country Park

2

East Kilbride

Chatelherault Country Park:

3

Larkhall

10km of footpath reconstruction

Whitelee Forest

> FUNDING: South Lanarkshire Council, Forestry Commission Scotland, Heritage Lottery Fund

Campsie Fells

Leven

Kilpatrick Hills

> DELIVERED BY: South Lanarkshire Council

1

2

Kelvin Wetlands

Seven Lochs Wetland Park

Clyde

Bishopton & Linwood Moss

> FUNDING: North Lanarkshire Council (sustainable transport funding); Sustrans Community Links

Black Loch Mosses

> DELIVERED BY: Central Scotland Green Network Trust, North Lanarkshire Council (accommodation works) > PARTNERS: Sustrans, Craigneuk Community Council

White Cart

Glasgow City Centre

North Shotts Mosses

Gleniffer Braes

Mid-Clyde Haughs

Campsie Fells

Bl ac k

Ca rt

Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park

1.25km of multi-use paths constructed and refurbished

Slamannan Plateau

Kelvin

3

Craigneuk:

East Kilpatrick Kilbride Mosses Hills

Kelvin Wetlands

Seven Lochs Wetland ParkKilpatrick Hills

3

Clyde

Bishopton & Linwood Moss

Bl ac k winnoch Wetlands

A functioning Habitat Network should consist of habitat patches to support species that live there and that are close enough together so that species can move easily between them.

> DELIVERED BY: Buglife Scotland > PARTNERS: Forest Enterprise Scotland, North Lanarkshire Council, Scottish Wildlife Trust, RSPB, SNH

Bishopton & Linwood Moss

Ca rt

Glasgow City LochCentre winnoch

Wetlands

Ca rt

Gleniffer Braes

Bl ac k Lochwinnoch Wetlands

• > 10,000 ha • 1,000–10,000 ha • < 1,000 ha

Tinto Hill

Slamannan

White Cart Plateau Loch-

Seven winnoch Lochs Wetlands Wetland Gleniffer Park Braes

• Colour–Habitat type • Length–Connection length

Mid-Clyde Haughs

Clyde

Mid-Clyde Haughs Whitelee

East Kilbride Mosses

Coalburn Moss

Tinto Hill

Broadleaved Woodland

Tinto Hill

Southern Uplands

Clyde

North Lowther Uplands

Carnwath Bogs

North Lowther Uplands Tinto Hill

Pentland Hills

3

North Lowther Pentland Tinto Uplands Culter Fell Hills Hill

Coalburn Moss

Muirkirk

Muirkirk

Large woodland habitat & aspirational connection

Carnwath Bogs

Clyde

North Lowther Uplands

Wetland

Coalburn Moss

Muirkirk

Predominant Habitat Type Whitelee

Culter

North Lowther Uplands

Whitelee:

Culter Fell

2547 ha of blanket bog habitat restoration Southern Uplands planned Southern North Lowther Uplands

North Lowther Uplands

Uplands

> FUNDING: Scottish Power Renewables

Culter Fell

> DELIVERED BY: Scottish Power Renewables

North Lowther Uplands

Carnwath Bogs

> PARTNERS: Woodland Trust Scotland, West Clyde Dunbartonshire Council, Forestry Commission Scotland

East Kilbride Mosses

Neutral Grassland

> DELIVERED BY: Woodland Trust Scotland

Culter Fell

North Shotts Mosses

250ha site: 234,000 native trees planted for habitat creation

North Shotts Mosses

> FUNDING: SRDP, Peoples Postcode Lottery, Pentland Hills Legacy Fund, Carnwath Sport Scotland Active Places Biffaward, Commonwealth Woods Bogs

Mid-Clyde Haughs

Muirkirk

Bog & Heath

Lang Craigs:

Black Loch Mosses

Whitelee

North Lowther Uplands

Dams to Darnley Country Park

North Shotts Mosses

East Kilbride Mosses

Coalburn Moss

Network Connection Opportunities

Lochs Wetland Park

Country Park

Dams to Darnley Country Park

Black Loch Mosses

Slamannan Plateau

Glasgow City Centre Seven

Glasgow Dams City to Darnley Centre

Black Loch Mosses

2

Slamannan Plateau

Seven Lochs Wetland Park

Shotts Mosses

Gleniffer Braes

Bl ac k

Bishopton & Linwood Moss

Habitat Network Area

> FUNDING: EU LIFE, WREN (Biodiversity Action Fund), SNH (Peatland Action Fund) (+ volunteer workforce)

Lowther Uplands White Cart

Clyde

East Kilbride Mosses

Kelvin Wetlands

Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park North Clyde

1

230 ha of bog restoration and habitat creation

Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park

Kelvin

Kelvin

Carnwath Bogs North

Bishopton Mid-Clyde Kelvin White Cart & Linwood Haughs Moss

Coalburn Moss

Whitelee

Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park

Fannyside Muir:

Kilpatrick Hills

Wetlands Pentland Hills

Kelvin Wetlands

Bl ac k

Leven

MuirkirkLoch-

Campsie Fells

Kelvin

Clyde

Fells

Dams to Darnley Country Park

Black Loch Mosses

Clyde

Kilpatrick Hills

Gleniffer Campsie Braes

Ca rt

Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park

Habitat Network

Glasgow City Centre

White Cart

Leven

Strategic

Leven

Whitelee

Campsie Fells

Slamannan Plateau

Kelvin

Ca rt

Lochwinnoch Wetlands

Leven

Dams to Darnley Country Park

> PARTNERS: RSPB, SNH, Forest Enterprise Southern Scotland Uplands

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