South Essex Strategic Green and Blue Infrastructure Study
The South Essex Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI) Study provides a place-specific and cross-boundary vision to build a more resilient South Essex
Location: South Essex, UK
Client: Association of South Essex Local Authorities (ASELA)
Year: 2020
Site Area: 70,000 hectares
The Study pioneers a critical reorientation of infrastructure that understands the importance of integrating natural systems, built environment and social equity, to meet the challenges of our time. Failure to integrate systems in the past has led to under performance of masterplanning and over-exertion on technological infrastructures. Thus, this landscape-scale GBI emerges out of a demand for new practices of planning and development to reconfigure the way we understand and shape the environment. It will prepare communities for the future by addressing ecological, economic, and social vulnerabilities that exist today.
This GBI Study provides high-level objectives, strategic opportunities and policies, to drive a coordinated approach that will steer, and be supported by, individual Local Plans. It will assist the strategic and local plan-making processes by informing the management and delivery of visionary, exemplary and high-quality GBI across South Essex that will also act as a model for other communities.
