Green Spaces & Access

Devising assessment framework and carrying out quality of open spaces in Maidstone Borough. 

Options appraisal for future of Pegwell Bay Country Park, a NNR and adjacent to Natura site

Evidence review and recommendations for taking forward a strategic green infrastructure approach across four east Kent local planning authorities.

Setting strategic direction for Kent’s Country Parks Service to balance need for income generation and fulfilling social and environmental requirements of the service.

Developing Stage 2 submission for the Valley of Visions Landscape Partnership Scheme

Delivering Medway’s new Rights of Way Improvement Plan, including stakeholder and public engagement, surveys and network assessments

Producing green infrastructure strategy for Canterbury district, with a comprehensive analysis of green infrastructure functions and public benefits.

Assessing strategic green infrastructure needs to support development in Kent to 2031.

Developing a community engagement and inclusion strategy to take forward audience development and to ensure the project engages harder-to-reach and under-represented audiences.

Audience development for the Colne Valley Regional Park to support the ‘Landscape on the Edge’ HLF Landscape Partnership Scheme.

Supporting this community group in Kent to progress with plans to purchase a former orchard so that it can be incorporated into the existing park and provide many benefits for the community.

Involvement in all editions of the Kent Countryside and Coast Access Improvement Plan (CCAIP) (Kent’s Rights of Way Improvement Plan) (2007, 2012 and 2018 publications). Stakeholder engagement, research in to users and non-users, literature review and drafting of the CCAIP.

Comprehensive access management plan to protect Natura sties from recreational pressure arising

Mitigation and monitoring plan to support Thanet District Council Local Plan to address increased recreation pressure

Mitigation and monitoring plan to support Canterbury City Council Local Plan to address increased recreation pressure

Producing integrated management plans for both nature and people, to enable the sites to be both Green Flag accredited and designated as Local Nature Reserves.

Setting out a strategic direction for Maidstone’s parks and open spaces to ensure that community, environmental and economic imperatives are met.

Audience development work for chalk grassland restoration project

Develop strategic green infrastructure framework across thirteen local planning authorities in support of the South Downs National Park Authority Local Plan.

Face-to-face and online surveys of visitors to Haysden Country Park, to help Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council improve the park for visitors and meet future income generation needs.

Scoping the suitability of potential Local Nature Reserves for Maidstone Borough Council.  Assessing ecological, community and other criteria in order to determine which sites will become Local Nature Reserves.

Producing new management plans for these locally important community and wildlife areas – Berengrave Local Nature Reserve and Watts Meadow – involving the local community and supporting new community groups.

Producing a masterplan for The Strand Leisure Park in Gillingham, Medway to guide the future direction of the park, as well as installing a Parkour facility.

Producing Buckinghamshire County Council’s new Rights of Way Improvement Plan. The plan responds to the needs of Buckinghamshire county, including significant development and major infrastructure.