Category Archives: Green infrastructure

A Certain Buzz!

Posted on December 12, 2017 by NatureScot

You’ve got to admire community activists and social entrepreneurs who bring about change and make good things happen, and it’s a real buzz when our work gives us a chance to work alongside such folk. Andy Dorin, Forth Area Manager, … Continue reading →

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Social Housing and Green Infrastructure – Connecting people and nature

Posted on December 6, 2017 by NatureScot

Ivan Clark, our Plan & Place-making Team Manager, is working with our partners to explore how we can deliver better quality greenspace in social housing developments. Scotland’s urban green spaces provide a range of benefits for people and nature. They … Continue reading →

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Our seven Green Infrastructure Fund projects

Posted on July 27, 2017 by NatureScot

This year SNH awarded £5.8 million from its Green Infrastructure Fund to seven projects that will improve local green space in some of the most deprived, urban areas in Scotland. Match funding from other sources will result in a total … Continue reading →

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What is green infrastructure?

Posted on July 14, 2017 by NatureScot

We only have to be stuck in a traffic jam, be waiting for a delayed train or not getting a mobile phone signal to realise how vital infrastructure is to us. But all of that is part of the grey, … Continue reading →

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Urban nature – get connected in Glasgow

Posted on January 13, 2017 by NatureScot

SNH champions nature in our towns and cities so we all have more good quality greenspace to enjoy. Martin Faulkner, our Green Infrastructure Project and Funding Officer shares his diary accounts of visits to two urban nature projects SNH is … Continue reading →

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