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This is the Doncaster Green Infrastructure Strategy 2014 – 2028, Making Doncaster a Greener, Healthier, more Attractive Borough. This adoption version of the Strategy has been informed by extensive public consultation to ensure it reflects the key priorities and projects for the Doncaster Borough. A separate Consultation Summary report is published alongside this Strategy setting out further detail of the stages involved in arriving at this adoption version.
Green infrastructure is a network of multi-purpose spaces that provide the opportunity for the coordination and delivery of environmental improvements that also offer numerous socio-economic benefits, such as encouraging inward investment and improving quality of life. A successful network helps to create a safe and accessible environment, mitigate climate change, reduce traffic noise and exhaust pollution, provides opportunities for sport and recreation, and protects and enhances our historic and natural environment.
The Strategy sets out our overall approach for delivering an integrated network of high quality green spaces, habitats and landscapes across the borough and has been prepared in partnership with a range of stakeholders. The Strategy runs to 2028 in line with the Local Development Framework Core Strategy, but the Strategy will need to be reviewed frequently to ensure the aims and objectives are being met to help deliver the vision.
The Strategy identifies particular funding and implementation opportunities, which include the vital work of Council partners and voluntary groups who invest significant time and resources into the borough’s green infrastructure assets ensuring they can be enjoyed by people across the borough.
The Strategy looks at five green infrastructure themes. It looks at the valuable contribution each theme makes towards green infrastructure as well as the current situation and where we are going in relation to each one, before setting out a number of principles and actions for the future. These are:
- Theme 1 – Biodiversity & Geodiversity:
- Theme 2 – Trees & woodlands;
- Theme 3 – Green space;
- Theme 4 – Green routes; and,
- Theme 5 – Historic environment.
Chapter 4 identifies the borough’s green infrastructure corridors, as well as a number of strategic project areas, before making a number of recommendations by Neighbourhood Area which will eventually form a series of delivery and action plans (Chapter 5). These delivery and action plans are currently being worked up into a finer grain of detail, including the identification of key projects which will be informed from the feedback from stakeholders and partners from the various stages of consultation already undertaken on this Strategy.
The Council would like to take this opportunity to thank all the stakeholders and relevant parties that have taken the opportunity to feed into this important Strategy for the Borough. Any comments or further feedback that may be relevant for the rolling five year delivery action plans, and/or future review of this Strategy, are always welcomed and can be made via any of the contact details contained on the Council’s Green Infrastructure Strategy homepage, available via: www.doncaster.gov.uk/greeninfrastructure