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GREY TO GREEN SCHEME IS A “BLOOMING” SUCCESS The awards cabinet is growing for Sheffield’s new Grey to Green regeneration programme – after it scooped two coveted Yorkshire In Bloom awards. The Grey to Green scheme, which has turned a redundant former inner ring road into a series of innovative meadows, public spaces and art whilst also providing flood prevention, won the 2016 Yorkshire Rose Environmental
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Quality Award, the top environmental award in Yorkshire, as well as a Gold Award in the City Centre category in an awards ceremony held in York last week. The project has also been shortlisted for several national awards. The awards were presented to Sheffield City Council’s project client Lucia LorenteArnau and landscape architect Duncan Bradbury by Prunella Scarlett from the Royal Horticultural Society.
The Grey to Green Corridor has transformed the setting of Sheffield’s Riverside Business District, developing the former inner ring road into an eyecatching display of public art, benches, a new sustainable urban drainage system (SUDs) and plant beds based on techniques developed at the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield, by Professor Nigel Dunnett, one of the main designers behind the wildflower
landscapes in London’s Olympic park, and the Royal Horticultural Society’s Ambassador for ‘Greening Grey Britain’ The drainage system has been designed by the Council and leading national expert Robert Bray to help flood relief in this part of the city by soaking up surface water run off to the river within the ‘flood zone’. The overall Grey to Green project will eventually transform 1.2 kilometres of redundant
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