Transcript Nick Grayson`s Presentation

Nick Grayson – Climate Change & Sustainability Manager
Birmingham - The Total Environment to an Edible City?
Birmingham City University Seminar April 23rd 2012
NIA award 2012-15 – confirmation of 30 years/ ‘Endless Village’
We know where we are……..
We know where we want to get to….
And how……
Total Picture
Total Environment
Total Solution
-BUCCANEER; Birmingham Urban Climate
Change with Neighbourhood Estimates of
Environmental Risk;
6.
Implementation – A National Case Study
Key Partners
Climate Risk
Water & Flood Risk
Green Infrastructure
EVIDENCE
Public Health
Biodiversity
POLICY
The LEP & Business
The 9 piece
jigsaw – GIA
Partnership
Community &Resilience
DELIVERY
Sustainable
Transport
Planning
Principle
Output & Policy
Task GIA Delivery Group
Endorse the Birmingham Forest
The City’s
Productive Land
Promote allotments
Facilitate community food growing, orchards, and woodlands
Embed biomass production
Adopt A Walkable City
The City’s
Greenways
Greenway networks
“Quiet Roads”
Permissive access rights
Ecosystem Evaluation of Birmingham’s GI and Trees
The City’s
Ecosystem
Explore new funding mechanisms & joint partnerships
Biodiversity mapping
Adopt a Blue Corridor Policy
The City’s Blue
Infrastructure
Enhance and the wider Blue network.
SuDS & flood & water management
Enhance water quality & riparian habitat
Adopt a Birmingham Index for GI
The City’s Green
Infrastructure
Sustainable tree planting policy
Introduce a Birmingham GI Index
Habitat permeability
Adopt GI Solutions to the Urban Heat Island
An Adapted City
Green roofs & walls
Protection of natural & built heritage
Integrate public health concerns
Adopt Natural Health Improvement Zones (NHIZ)
A Healthy City
Introduce sustainable land management principles.
‘Be Active’ neighbourhoods
Childhood development
Extract timber sustainably from City woodlands and river corridors
Plant new woodlands
To facilitate community food growing leading to healthy lifestyles and cohesive communities.
Connect pedestrian & cycle routes to greenways.
Establish quiet roads in neighbourhoods
Solve broken links in networks
To provide a Core Strategy ecosystems services evidence base for all GI and trees.
To implement a Birmingham Tree Bond fund.
Co-ordinate the GI CIL Implementation Plan.
Integrate all biodiversity priorities.
Facilitate the adoption of a Blue Corridor Policy; with zero floodplain tolerance.
Integrate SUDs and flood management solutions.; and wetland creation
Implement a programme of water quality & habitat enhancements
Introduce a sustainable tree planting policy.
Protect & enhance GI through the Birmingham Index
Introduce a GI Index Questionnaire for all development.
Map all the climate change risks.
Devise future-proofing techniques & policies across all partners citywide.
Maximise adaptation opportunities: greening reduces the urban heat island effect, reduce
flood risk & protect habitat and heritage.
Link research with delivery, by creating NHIZ’s across the city.
Embed the 4 ‘Wells’; well being, well managed, well used and used well.
Research and promote all links between health and environment, create accessible green
space for all and apply natural solutions to health concerns.
Birmingham as National Pilot
A Private Sector / Public Sector
Joint Plan/ vision for Birmingham
1.
The City’s Productive Land – The Birmingham Forest
2.
The City’s Greenways – UK’s First Walkable City
5.
The City’s Green Infrastructure
A Birmingham Index….?
6.
An Adapted City
7.
A Healthy City
1952 smog =
4,075 excess
deaths – Clean Air
Act;
COMEAP’s 2008
Report 4,267
predicted deaths,
PM10s;
JSNA
Public Health
Outcomes
Framework
Planning Checklist