Policy Blog Posts
Plant Your Next
Footsteps
The ancient practice of horticulture still plays an exceedingly vital role in the way we shape our [...]
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Reflecting your ethos in Green Space
Ethos: the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its attitudes and [...]
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Building for a Healthy Life
Building for a Healthy Life (BHL 2020) updates England’s most widely used design tool for creating [...]
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Introducing ArborAdvance – Guaranteeing Long Term Planting Success
Is it all about “Right Tree, Right Place?” Or do we need to add “For the Right Reasons & In the [...]
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Are there enough “Green” Planners?
GreenBlue were delighted to see a DEFRA announcement dated 12th March for a government-led funding [...]
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Driving Green Infrastructure Policy Forward
GreenBlue are overjoyed when councils present a GI Policy / Strategy; even more so when we see the [...]
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Will we see tree-lined streets on all new developments?
Since MP Mr Chris Clarkson brought a Private Members Bill to the House of Commons on 15th July that [...]
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Health & Wellbeing: Access to Green Space during COVID-19
The current COVID-19 crisis has helped many of us re-evaluate our priorities; in particular, most [...]
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Continuing to Adapt to Change
Just 6 months in and 2020 seems to have been one of the most controversial in recent years, [...]
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Why Integrate Trees?
It is noticeable that the most successful developments have a green infrastructure at the core of [...]
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How to Design for Biodiversity
It was a pleasure again to visit Palestra – the illustrious venue of TfL and Urban Design London. [...]
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Creating Long Term Biodiversity through the Planning System
As our urban and peri-urban areas become more congested, our bio-diversity becomes increasingly [...]
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The Urban Greening Factor
The Urban Greening Factor has been introduced as part of The London Plan and provides an easily [...]
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How to Incorporate Biodiversity Net Gain & SuDS on New Developments
It has now been confirmed in the Spring Statement that the Government will pass legislation to put [...]
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Evolving our Understanding to Meet Drainage Solutions
GreenBlue Urban’s Charlotte recently attended the CIWEM Spring Conference in Birmingham to learn [...]
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Site visit for EU ‘COOL TOWNS’ Project
Our readers may remember the launch of GreenBlue Urban’s second successful EU Interreg funded 2Seas [...]
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Protecting our Trees for the Long Term
Below we detail the steps urban landscape professionals and residents alike should take [...]
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How Urban Trees Make Cities More Livable
Former mayor of Chicago Richard Daley once delivered a keynote speech at the Great Parks/Great [...]
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Integrating SUDS / LID into a City Vision
We are now into the initial phases of implementing pilot projects as part of our involvement in the [...]
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Boosting Investment & Economic Growth with Urban Trees
Urban greening has been an effective initiative in rejuvenating deprived city areas over the years. [...]
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Water Resilient Cities – Kortrijk Workshop
As part of GreenBlue Urban’s commitment to the EU Interreg Water Resilient Cities Project, [...]
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Adapting to climate change – Urban GreenUp
GreenBlue Urban were privileged to contribute to the Urban Tree Pit Seminar held at the Liverpool [...]
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Discover the Growing Potential of Urban Greening
The idea of designing with nature is now central to urban critical thought. Research is [...]
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What’s next for Water Resilient Cities?
GreenBlue Urban have been involved for one year now in an EU Interreg project called Water [...]
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GI & The Greater London Authority
Recently Charlotte Markey had the pleasure of talking to Peter Massini, Principal Green [...]
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