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
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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
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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
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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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