Green Infrastructure Planning
Green Infrastructure (GI) is the network of multi-functional green spaces required to meet a community’s needs.
It consists of both public and private land, with and without public access, in urban and rural locations. BRCC works to develop and maintain GI across Bedfordshire, in close collaboration with local communities and volunteers.
BRCC can work with individual parishes to generate their own ‘Green Infrastructure’ (GI) Action Plans for protecting and enhancing their local countryside.
The workshops are open to all members of the local community, and the resulting Action Plans inform district and county level plans, as well as being made available to planners and developers to inform them of what local communities value and require in terms of future GI provision.
Recent work
In recent years we have helped parishes to produce GI Plans as part of Neighbourhood Plans, such as Caddington and Northill.
Completed plans include a wide range of aspirations, such as:
- A bench and information board at a good viewpoint
- Restoring village ponds
- Planting a community orchard or woodland
- Linking an existing dead-end footpath to the rights of way network
- Creating a new cycleway
- Converting large arable fields to flower–rich chalk grassland
How to find out more
Contact Cliff Andrews on (01234) 832617
Green Infrastructure Plans Archive
- Ampthill GI Plan (PDF 5.5MB)
- Arlesey GI Plan (PDF 3.9MB)
- Aspley Guise GI Plan (PDF 4.1MB)
- Beds and Luton Strategic GI Plan (PDF 7.0MB)
- Bedford GI Plan 2009 (PDF 9MB)
- Biggleswade GI Plan (PDF 4.6MB)
- Billington GI Plan (PDF 5.5MB)
- Chalgrave GI Plan (PDF 7.6MB)
- Chalton GI Plan (PDF 5.2MB)
- Clifton GI Plan (PDF 4.1MB)
- Clophill GI Plan (PDF 8.3MB)
- Cranfield GI Plan (PDF 4.5MB)
- Eggington GI Plan (PDF 4.6MB)
- Flitwick GI Plan (PDF 6.3MB)
- Harlington GI Plan (PDF 4.7MB)
- Henlow GI Plan (PDF 4.0MB)
- Houghton GI Plan (PDF 3.9MB)
- Kensworth GI Plan (PDF 10.7MB)
- Langford GI Plan (PDF 3.4MB)
- Lidlington GI Plan (PDF 9.9MB)
- Marston Moretaine GI Plan (PDF 4.4MB)
- Meppershall GI Plan (PDF 3.4MB)
- Mid Beds GI Plan (PDF 6.7MB)
- Potton GI Plan (PDF 3.2MB)
- Sandy GI Plan (PDF 4.1MB)
- Shefford GI Plan (PDF 4.2MB)
- Shillington GI Plan (PDF 4.5MB)
- Silsoe GI Plan (PDF 4.9MB)
- Stanbridge Tilsworth GI Plan (PDF 4.6MB)
- Stotfold GI Plan (PDF 4.7MB)
- Streatley GI Plan (PDF 10.5MB)
- Sundon GI Plan (PDF 9.0MB)
- Totternhoe GI Plan (PDF 10.0MB)
- Whipsnade GI Plan (PDF 9.4MB)