Proven domain · 09
Green space & public realm
Green space is the cheapest urban cooling and drainage infrastructure a city owns, and the one most often treated as decoration in an infrastructure plan. It is also a planning obligation: accessible green space standards bind development, and Ordnance Survey publishes the whole national picture openly.
Questions a council can answer here
Planning policy
Which brownfield sites are inside the green belt?
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Which Local Nature Recovery Strategy areas overlap the green belt?
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What is in the layer
Public parks and gardens, playing fields, allotments and community growing space, play space, with site boundaries and access points.
Who it is for
Planning, parks and public health teams: the green belt review, open space standards and the Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
Also: Local authorities, developers meeting green space standards, public health teams, park trusts.
Status. Each domain carries its own data, independent of the city assessments. Where a source is wired the map is live; otherwise the layers are specified and the ingest is still to build.